Arsonist whose getaway bike leaves without him has sentenced reduced

A Dublin man who was caught by gardaí when his getaway motorbike left without him after he had set a car on fire has had his prison sentence reduced from 10 to eight years.

Arsonist whose getaway bike leaves without him has sentenced reduced

A Dublin man who was caught by gardaí when his getaway motorbike left without him after he had set a car on fire has had his prison sentence reduced from 10 to eight years.

Today the three-judge Court of Criminal Appeal made the reduction after it had previously held that part of the original sentence imposed on Paul McGrath for possession of firearms and arson was "excessive".

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