Great News: Gardai arrest two members of prolific rural crime gang

Kivaro

............... but they have since been released without charge, while a file is being prepared for the DPP.

Suspected of carrying out at least 50 raids over the last two months and being part of a four man gang causing havoc along the west coast, these boyos based in Limerick also had their high-powered vehicles seized.
And to add insult to law-abiding/tax paying citizens in the country, one of the men was also wanted in relation to an outstanding bench warrant.

But the good news is that politicians are focusing their efforts on bringing in a law for minimum alcohol pricing .............. which allows law-abiding/tax paying citizens to numb their senses upon hearing such news as catching prolific repeat criminal offenders, then releasing them so that they continue their carnage.

More info on Indo: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gardai-arrest-two-members-of-prolific-rural-crime-gang-suspected-of-50-raids-this-year-36620395.html

Tabnabs

What these fine citizens will now do is go on a real crime spree bender. They've already been caught, will be sentenced and are looking at time inside, they know this.

But in the meantime, while out on bail they need to make provision for their families and/or their ultimate release so they need some quick money. Any crimes they get caught and charged for subsequent to the original arrest will mean a concurrent sentence and it's a case of "in for a penny, in for a pound"... It's a wonderful criminal system we have cobbled together for ourselves.

Kivaro

In a rare move, the DPP asked the court of appeals to set sentencing guidelines for burglaries because of the “serious social problem” they are causing i.e. forcing people to “live in permanent fear or dread”.

The submission by the DPP was made to the court as it extended the detention of two men jailed for a fatal burglary in 2015 at the home of a 62-year-old man. 4½ years imprisonment was what they received initially in this case.

Here is the link to the Irish Times article today, but if you do click on the link you will have to look at the smiling face of Michael Casey, who lives at the Clonlong Halting Site, Limerick, and one of the perpetrators of the fatal burglary.

A review of the Irish judiciary and associated issues of sentencing/re-offending should be at the top of the agenda for the Irish government.

howamidifferent

Kivaro wrote: »

In a rare move, the DPP asked the court of appeals to set sentencing guidelines for burglaries because of the “serious social problem” they are causing i.e. forcing people to “live in permanent fear or dread”.

The submission by the DPP was made to the court as it extended the detention of two men jailed for a fatal burglary in 2015 at the home of a 62-year-old man. 4½ years imprisonment was what they received initially in this case.

Here is the link to the Irish Times article today, but if you do click on the link you will have to look at the smiling face of Michael Casey, who lives at the Clonlong Halting Site, Limerick, and one of the perpetrators of the fatal burglary.

A review of the Irish judiciary and associated issues of sentencing/re-offending should be at the top of the agenda for the Irish government.

These guys were sentenced to 4 1/2 years in December 2016 and were due to be released in April 2018??????????????? WTF?

Oink

I was wondering did the guards even have time to take them to the station before they were released. They must have just about made it on time.

backspin.

Would have been better if the guards had driven them of the road at high speed.

ah sure as long as it's not in the leafy suburbs or near the judges houses then it's fine!! overpaid lousers the lot of them. wouldn't it be so funny if the judge went home to find his/her own house ripped asunder and defecated all over!!in line with the current MO!

seachto7

Nomads?

harry Bailey esq

Caseys..... They get away with murder, literally. They all live together in a big shytpile near Southill, married into the Dundons through fatchops, but not averse to having gunfights with them. They all look identical and a fairly common slur on the southside of Limerick is 'look at the big casey head on that' or variations of the same.