2024-03-07
Jail for man who argued method used to catch him sending explicit messages to fake child profile bordered on 'entrapment'
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Photo: Collins) A Dublin man who argued that the method used to catch him sending explicit messages to a fictitious 14-year-old girl bordered on "entrapment" has been jailed for 18 months. She sentenced Redmond to two years in prison, with the final six months suspended for one year.; Judge Crowe said it had not been previously asserted that this was "borderline entrapment" and she adjourned finalisation of the case until Thursday to give her time to reread the text messages.