Actor gets sentence for possessing stun guns reduced on appeal

The Court of Criminal Appeal has today reduced the sentence imposed on an actor convicted of having ten stun guns without a firearms certificate.

Actor gets sentence for possessing stun guns reduced on appeal

The Court of Criminal Appeal has today reduced the sentence imposed on an actor convicted of having ten stun guns without a firearms certificate.

Last year Robert Scales (aged 38) of Waterloo Road in Dublin’s Donnybrook was sentenced to two years in prison for the offence, however today the three-judge court held that a sentence of three years suspended was more appropriate.

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