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# Sentenced

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# Courts
Man (57) who spied on children in public toilets using hidden cameras is jailed
Kieran Griffin was sentenced to a total of three years in prison for a range of sexual offences.
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Jul 18th 2019, 3:05 PM
# Joaquin Guzman
Drug kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman sentenced to life in US prison
Guzman, the 62-year-old former co-leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, was convicted in February.
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Jul 17th 2019, 4:23 PM
# Anthony Moynihan
Man (54) sentenced to seven years in prison for raping 11-year-old boy
Anthony Moynihan of Croccane, Rostellan, Midleton was sentenced in his absence after he failed to appear at the Central Criminal Court today.
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Jun 21st 2019, 3:46 PM
# Sentenced
Ex-football coach Bob Higgins jailed for 24 years for abusing boys
He was convicted of 45 offences of indecent assault on 23 May 2019.
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Jun 12th 2019, 9:33 PM
# Wisconsin
Wisconsin man sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping 13-year-old and killing her parents
Jake Patterson (21) pleaded guilty to two counts of intentional homicide and one count of kidnapping.
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May 25th 2019, 10:27 AM
# Gary Watson
Man who was cleared of murdering former soldier is jailed for stabbing another man on same night
Gary Watson was convicted by a jury last February.
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May 16th 2019, 1:10 PM
# Belfast
Man sentenced to minimum 9 years in prison for murder of Syrian national
Callin Wilson (20), currently of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to the murder of Hazem Ahmed Ghreir.
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Mar 26th 2019, 5:59 PM
# Sentenced
Banned hit-and-run driver who seriously injured cyclist jailed for five years
Jonathan Wainyae pleaded guilty to causing serious bodily injury.
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Mar 16th 2019, 6:30 AM
# Courts
Student who engaged in 'extreme bullying' escapes conviction but told to donate €1,000 to poor box
The victim was stamped upon and repeatedly beaten by older pupils at the school.
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Mar 14th 2019, 5:50 PM
# mueller probe
Trump's ex-campaign chief Manafort sentenced to three and half more years in prison
His is the highest profile case yet stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
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Mar 13th 2019, 4:31 PM
# Sentenced
Man who trapped and attacked woman in laneway jailed for five years
Chico Makamda has 15 previous convictions, including for an offence of indecency.
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Mar 5th 2019, 7:50 PM
# CAUGHT IN A TRAPSTAR
London rapper who bragged about drug possession jailed for five years for drug possession
Adetokunbo Ajibola, otherwise known by his stage name Trapstar Toxic, admitted possessing cocaine and cannabis.
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Mar 1st 2019, 9:35 PM
# Courts
Man sentenced after robbing shop and threatening to stab worker with red liquid-filled syringe
Rooney Dignam entered the shop on the day in question and told the worker to open the till or he would stab her.
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Feb 22nd 2019, 2:47 PM
# Cork
Former deputy principal jailed for 18 months for possessing and distributing child abuse images
Brian Fitzgerald (49) of Golf Links Road, Youghal, Co Cork pleaded guilty at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.
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Feb 20th 2019, 10:21 PM
# Ennis
Judge jails 48-year-old homeless man who called priest a 'motherf**ker'
The man had pleaded guilty to a public order charge arising from the incident.
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Feb 20th 2019, 8:00 PM
# Sentenced
Garda jailed for two years for possession of child abuse images
Joseph O’Connor (58) of west Dublin had pleaded not guilty.
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Feb 15th 2019, 11:38 AM
# Courts
Man jailed for seven years after smuggling €1.2 million worth of heroin into Dublin airport
Mudassar Khan’s bags were searched and customs official found 13kg of heroin wrapped up in one suitcase.
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Feb 12th 2019, 11:00 PM
# Courts
Man who travelled from UK to Dublin to have sex with teenage girl sentenced to five years in jail
Justice Paul Coffey said the defendant was controlling, possessive and manipulative.
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Feb 11th 2019, 5:25 PM
# tiger kidnap
Man jailed for 18 years over €92k robbery in which three women were abducted from home
Three women were tied up and abducted during the 2014 incident.
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Feb 1st 2019, 6:22 PM
# Jailed
Family 'devastated' at six year sentence for man who killed taxi driver
Martin Mulligan was stabbed to death by Joseph Hillen on 28 September 2015.
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Jan 28th 2019, 1:55 PM
# Courts
'A despicable act': Two men sentenced in Derry over murder of Paul McCauley
McCauley was attacked at a friend’s barbecue in the early hours of 16 July 2006.
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Dec 21st 2018, 1:37 PM
# Sentenced
Former 'singing' priest jailed for 3½ years for indecent assault
Tony Walsh is currently serving a seven and a half year sentence for raping another boy three times in the 1980s.
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Dec 19th 2018, 5:44 PM
# Birmingham
Couple who named their son after Hitler sentenced to prison for membership of banned right-wing group
The pair were members of the banned group National Action.
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Dec 18th 2018, 3:21 PM
# Courts
Father of boy (6) killed after being struck by van says the family forgive the driver
The family of the boy told the man that they forgave him .
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Dec 18th 2018, 2:21 PM
# michael cohen
Jailed former Trump lawyer says he felt he was duty-bound 'to cover up his dirty deeds'
Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison.
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Dec 12th 2018, 5:14 PM
# tina cahill
Irish woman who killed her fiance in Sydney jailed for eight years
Cathrina Cahill fatally stabbed her fiance David Walsh in February 2017.
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Dec 12th 2018, 6:43 AM
# Sentenced
Man who left pensioner lying “helpless” on the ground after robbing her handbag jailed
Anthony Graham pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to robbing then 81-year-old Rita Murphy.
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Dec 3rd 2018, 6:22 PM
# on trial
Nicklas Bendtner sentenced to 50 days in prison for assaulting taxi driver
The former Arsenal striker has appealed the decision.
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Nov 2nd 2018, 5:12 PM
# Courts
Man who helped criminal organisation murder Sunset House manager sentenced
Michael Barr was shot seven times by a masked gunman on 25 April 2016.
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Oct 15th 2018, 7:46 PM
# London
Woman who shared clip of dying boyfriend on social media jailed for 14 years
Fatima Khan was sentenced at the Old Bailey where she was previously found guilty of orchestrating the killing of Khalid Safi.
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Sep 21st 2018, 7:14 PM
# Naa’imur Rahman
Man jailed in London for planning terrorist attack to kill Theresa May
Naa’imur Rahman pleaded guilty to engaging in conduct in assisting the preparation of terrorist acts.
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Sep 1st 2018, 3:38 PM
# Guilty
Former Defence Forces member who recorded young girl exposing herself jailed
The girl was aged between 11 and 13 years old at the time of the offence.
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Jul 23rd 2018, 8:07 PM
# Dublin
Couple who used stolen credit card details to buy hotel stay and sex toys ordered to leave jurisdiction
They used stolen credit card numbers to buy flights from Dublin to New York, costing €3,592 and Dublin to Kuala Lumpur costing €8,798.
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Jul 21st 2018, 8:00 AM
# Sentenced
Garda dressed as a postman to deliver 36,000 ecstasy pills to suspected dealer
Philip Noonan was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison today.
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Jul 5th 2018, 4:16 PM
# Sentenced
Here's who been jailed over Ireland's banking crisis so far
David Drumm has became the fourth person to be jailed over his role in a bank fraud scheme 10 years ago.
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Jun 20th 2018, 8:20 PM
# Sentenced
Man who walked around north Dublin with realistic AK47 jailed for 2.5 years
Eoin Berkeley has already served 18 months on remand.
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Jun 19th 2018, 6:25 PM
# Sentenced
Men convicted of child pornography offences after online chat where one pretended to be teen girl
The case was described as “very unusual”.
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May 31st 2018, 7:35 PM
# Holocaust Denial
German police hunting 89-year-old 'Nazi grandma' who skipped jail
Haverbeck was once chairwoman of a far-right training centre shut down in 2008 for spreading Nazi propaganda.
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May 7th 2018, 3:48 PM
# Sentenced
Man stole over €14,000 from employer while waiting to be charged over child pornography offences
The man was jailed for two-and-a-half years.
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May 2nd 2018, 6:20 AM
# Jailed
Disgraced former South Korea president jailed for 24 years for corruption
The trial lasted more than 10 months and highlighted shady links between big business and politics in South Korea.
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Apr 6th 2018, 12:47 PM
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