Man caught with sawn-off shotgun jailed for five years
Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said it was an extremely serious offence and he imposed a seven-year jail term on David Butt with the last two years suspended at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.
The judge said aggravating factors in the case were that Butt inveigled a totally innocent young woman into driving the car so the suspicions of gardaí would not be raised, and that the gun was sawn-off. He said there was no conceivable legal use for a sawn-off shotgun.
