Il DPP impugna la clemenza della sentenza Crotty
https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2025/0123/1492466-cathal-crotty/
di Banania2020
Il DPP impugna la clemenza della sentenza Crotty
https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2025/0123/1492466-cathal-crotty/
di Banania2020
7 commenti
I thought he was to be resentenced anyway?
I’m really glad the DPP are really going for it with this appeal, gives me a tiny bit of hope for the future. But I guess I’m also not holding my breath for a positive result from the appeal either.
It’ll be interesting to see what sort of sentencing the next violent soldier gets, will this be a pattern where the loss of their job will be seen as enough punishment? I really, really hope not. People deserve better justice than fully suspended sentences. A soldier was charged with a horrific assault a while ago (the type that requires surgery and plates in the victims head) and it was meant to return to court in October but I haven’t read anything about it since.
I’m so angry about this. Mitigating factors?
1. Genuine remorse: It’s not genuine. If he lost his temper and immediately regretted it and apologised, that would be genuine. Boasting about it on snapchat absolutely proves he wasn’t remotely sorry until his legal team told him he was sorry.
2: Signed plea of guilty: He accused her of attacking him and only backed down when shown CCTV. He not only almost killed her but he tried to blame her.
3: The possibility of losing his job. I don’t want people like him representing our country in the Defence Forces. And what about Natasha’s job? She was not able to work due to being physically beaten and heavily traumatised.
I hope they throw away the key.
If you knock a person out in public during an unprovoked attack then you need to see a cell. My view here is that his job in the army is more of a reason for him to be dismissed & jailed. The public need to have trust in our defense forces as well as a our Gardaí.
Him and his scumbag family can get fucked.
It was ultimately the right decision to appeal the leniency and glad that this thug will spend 2 years behind bars, albeit a lot less than he actually ought to have gotten.
He still only got 2 years. Should have got 5 minimum.