State solicitor: sentence in animal welfare case exceeded length permitted
The state solicitor for Co Sligo has said she is duty-bound to seek to quash certain convictions in the case of Bernard Kilgariff, himself a senior official in the Department of Agriculture
The failure to notice that a district court sentence handed down in a recent high-profile animal welfare case was in excess of what is legally allowed was an “accidental and regrettable oversight”, the state solicitor for Co Sligo has said.
In an affidavit filed with the High Court earlier this month, Elisa McHugh said she was duty-bound to seek an order to quash certain convictions and sentences in the case of Bernard Kilgariff, a senior ...
