Jefferson Dos Santos (34) of Inny Court, Ballymahon, Co. Longford
They were sentenced last December at Mullingar Circuit Criminal Court over what Judge Keenan Johnson described was an incident that could have ended in fatalities.
The gang, it was revealed, were wearing plastic gloves when stopped and arrested by gardai while travelling through Clara village armed with a sub machine gun and a shotgun along with ammunition.
The court heard their objective was to frighten a particular individual but that the planned use of firearms had the capacity to go fatally wrong .
It had previously been revealed the gang had got lost twice on the way to their intended target and were using ill-equipped weapons as part of the alleged enterprise.
Mother avoids jail for trying to run over daughter s attackers on footpath
The woman is a widow with three daughters and a son who had been going through “a difficult patch” at the time of the incident, the court heard.
A judge said the accused, Mary Lawrence, had taken “the law into her own hands” after being annoyed with the way gardaí had handled the incident involving her daughter. File picture: iStock
Tue, 15 Dec, 2020 - 16:24
Sean McCarthaigh
A mother of four who drove her car at speed on a footpath in an attempt to run down two teenage girls who had attacked her 14-year-old daughter has been given a three-year suspended jail sentence.
Mother who drove on footpath after teenagers who attacked her daughter gets suspended sentence
A judge said the accused had taken “the law into her own hands” after being annoyed with the way Gardaí had handled the incident with her daughter. By Seán McCárthaigh Tuesday 15 Dec 2020, 5:15 PM Dec 15th 2020, 5:15 PM 49,368 Views 0 Comments
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A MOTHER OF four who drove her car at speed on a footpath in an attempt to run down two teenage girls who had attacked her 14-year-old daughter has been given a three year suspended jail sentence.
A judge said the accused, Mary Lawrence, had taken “the law into her own hands” after being annoyed with the way Gardaí had handled the incident involving her daughter.