Image: Shutterstock Image: Shutterstock THERE WAS EVIDENCE missing in the trial of a woman who became one of first individuals in the State jailed for human trafficking and the conviction needs to be quashed, the Court of Appeal was told today.
The women had all travelled in the belief that they were going to be working as shop assistants but ended up being forced to work as prostitutes in various locations around the country including Limerick, Cork, Galway, Castlebar, Navan, Athlone, Letterkenny, Cavan and Dundalk. At a sentencing hearing last September, Judge Francis Comerford jailed Edosa, formerly of Market Point, Mullingar, Co Westmeath, to five years and eight months’ imprisonment which he backdated to April 2019.
But it was later found a number of messages from the same number had been deleted from both devices, Fogarty said. She said that the jury had “carefully considered the evidence before it” before finding Edosa guilty of the charges and that there had been “no dereliction of duty” by investigating gardai.
O’Malley said the victims in this case had been treated as “chattel” by both women and the appropriate term would be in the “upper-echelons” of the middle range of a 15-year term.
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