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Scrap dealer entitled for credit for guilty pleas to handling stolen property
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Court of Appeal allows appeal against severity of sentences imposed on a scrap dealer for handling stolen property and substitutes sentences totaling three years and six months, with the final six months suspended, on the grounds that the sentencing judge had given insufficient recognition of the offender's pleas of guilty.
Criminal law – sentencing – appeal against severity of concurrent prison sentences of five years – handling stolen property – s. 17 of the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act 2001 – investigation arising from a series of burglaries in Co. Galway, gardaí observed a large quantity of power tools in the vicinity of a lock up premises – sentencing judge determined sentence on the basis of his understanding that the maximum sentence was fourteen years rather than, as is correct, ten years – worthwhile guilty pleas ought to have reduced sentence – error in principle due to insufficient recognition to the pleas of guilty – sentences of three years and six months with the final six months suspended – appeal allowed
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