DPP fails to get longer jail term for healthcare worker who raided three Cork post offices

The barrister for the DPP said that not only were the post office staff victims of the crimes but also Fintan Tindley caught a customer and held a knife to their throat in each robbery

In each post office robbery, Fintan Tindley grabbed an unsuspecting customer and placed a knife to their throat making a death threat as he demanded cash from the post mistress. File photo: Facebook

The DPP’s appeal against a four-year jail term being too lenient in the case of a 50-year-old healthcare worker who raided three Cork post offices while armed with a knife was rejected at the court of criminal appeal.

Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy said that he and Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy and Ms Justice Una Ní Raifeartaigh found that the Director of Public Prosecutions had not shown that the sentencing judge, Judge Colin Daly, had erred in principle in imposing a sentence of five years with the last year suspended in the case against Fintan Tindley at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.