A four year sentence imposed on a former home care assistant who made knifepoint death threats during post office raids he carried out in order to raise money to visit his fiancée in the US is being appealed by the DPP as it was “unduly lenient.”
Today at the Court of Criminal Appeal barrister Paula McCarthy, BL, for the DPP said that whilst she accepted the plea of guilty was beneficial the crime was utterly premeditated in nature. Ms McCarthy said that the headline sentence of nine years was “appropriate.” However, she said that Colin Judge Daly then reduced the sentence to five years suspending the last year of the sentence.Elizabeth O’Connell, SC for Mr Tindley, said that something “catastrophic” had happened in the life of Tindley in the lead up to his offending behaviour and that the presiding Judge took note of this in the sentencing process.
Meanwile, Cork Circuit Criminal Court last year heard that Tindley had obtained loans of €27,000 from the credit union and €10,000 from An Post. He also borrowed €3,000 from the widow of a man whom he had taken care of in the course of his work. He said that it was alleged that he also received €4000 from another pensioner whom he had attended on during the course of his work.
He told the court that at lunchtime on November 11th, 2022 Tindley went in to the South Douglas Road post office. He put a knife to the neck of a customer in his seventies, who feared he was going to be cut, and demanded “all the money” from the postmistress. A sum of €2,380 was stolen from the post office that day.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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