2016-03-03
Gaisce Award recipient has hammer attack sentence suspended on appeal
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: He was sentenced to 16 months imprisonment by Judge Martin Nolan on July 12, 2013 but was subsequently granted bail pending an appeal. Emerson successfully appealed against the severity of his sentence today, with the Court of Appeal holding that he had turned his life around to such a significant extent that the Circuit Court judge erred in ruling out suspending a part of his sentence.