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Former property investor who stole deposits gets 7.5 years in jail

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  • #2
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    its only harsh in relation to the ridiculously light sentences they usually hand out.

    some ould f#cker got 2 years for raping a 6 year old there today. the rape way in 1979 but still.


  • #3
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    34 counts of theft, premeditated, lots of prior convictions for theft. He deserved more.


  • #4
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Callous crime that left someone homeless
    Doesn't feel too harsh to me.
    She said it was particularly disturbing that he was aware that one woman he took a rental deposit from was living in a woman's refuge, yet he stole her money anyway, after having spoken to her social worker.


  • #5
    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    Gangland connection with one of the most vile gangs around and money laundering for them also wouldn't have helped.


  • #6
    Pkiernan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,310 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


    coredev123 wrote: »
    Is it just me, or is this guy being given an extremely harsh sentence?

    50K FOR 7.5 years is extreme. The guy is a scumbag, but 2 years + compensation for the victims would of been more appropriate imo.

    David Drumm got 6, will probably do 3. Eamonn Lillis got 7, and did 5 for manslaughter. Something doesn't make sense here.

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/former-property-investor-who-stole-deposits-from-wouldbetenants-including-mother-and-girl-8-left-homeless-drops-appeal-38110670.html

    Multiple previous convictions.
    Premeditated lengthy crime carried out on multiple desperate victims.

    Only the rabid far left could call this sentence excessive in my opinion.


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
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    Pkiernan wrote: »
    Only the rabid far left could call this sentence excessive in my opinion.

    Can you write a post without ranting about some chimerical "rabid far left"?


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