Garlic importer sees judgement reserved in jail sentence appeal

A Dublin businessman will have to wait to find out if his six-year jail sentence for a €1.6m tax scam on garlic will be reduced on appeal.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgment in a challenge by Paul Begley of Begley Brothers Ltd in Blanchardstown, with an address in Redgap, Rathcoole to the severity of his sentence.