Court increases 'unduly lenient' jail term for farmer who killed neighbour with teleporter in 2017
Kerry farmer Michael Ferris has had his sentencing increased from five years to nine in the Court of Criminal Appeal.
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Kerry farmer Michael Ferris has had his sentencing increased from five years to nine in the Court of Criminal Appeal.
The package was sent to “Tony Tuto, Honorary Consul of the Republic of South Africa”.
Lyons had been found guilty of sexually assaulting a young woman in Dublin in 2010.
The current Anthony Lyons case has highlighted the problem of uniformity regarding criminal sanctions. Is there a way to improve consistency and fairness of sentencing?
The sentence was already found to be unjustly lenient but the appeal has had to be re-heard.
The Chief Justice said the judge will “probably require a lengthy period of convalescence following on his illness”.
The aviation broker had five-and-a-half years of a six year sentence suspended last year after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a 27-year-old woman.
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The government has approved the appointment of two extra judges to the Supreme Court to deal with the current backlogs, some as long as four years.
Michael McKevitt fails in a bid to have his conviction overturned because of evidence obtained under an unconstitutional warrant.
The blame does not lie with one judge but with the inconsistency of the Court of Criminal Appeal, writes Aodhán Ó Ríordáin.
He was granted free legal aid to take a miscarriage of justice case by the Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday.
All jury trials are not going ahead today while there is disruption to District Court cases, among others.