Limerick judge Tom O’Donnell has had sentences appealed on both leniency and severity grounds

Judge’s decision to grant a suspended sentence to soldier Cathal Crotty for ‘vicious’ assault on Natasha O’Brien has provoked controversyJudge Tom O’Donnell, who last week controversially imposed a three-year suspended sentence on soldier Cathal Crotty for viciously assaulting Natasha O’Brien, has had sentences appealed for both undue leniency and undue harshness, court records show.

In 2022 Luke Barrett, who had been jailed by Judge O’Donnell for eight years, with the final 18 months suspended, successfully appealed the severity of the sentence. Barrett, who had pleaded guilty to threatening shop workers with a knife at various premises in Co Limerick, had his sentence reduced by 18 months. The appeal court found that the sentence for one of the charges did not adequately consider Barrett’s youth and lack of previous convictions.

In 2019, a man found guilty of cruelty to his son had his sentence increased after the original sentence was appealed for undue leniency.

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