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01 March 2012
Grave crime appeal refused
A MAN convicted of impeding the investigation into the killing of Wexford mum-of-two Rebecca French (30) yesterday failed in his attempt to have his jail sentence reduced on the grounds that it was too severe.
Patrick O’Connor of Ard Na Dara, Clonard, Wexford and Polish man Piotr Pasiak of Lower John Street in Wexford were before the Court of Criminal Appeal in Dublin yesterday appealing their eight and seven-and-a-half year respective sentences, handed down at the Central Criminal Court in late 2010 by Judge Barry White.
Polish national Pasiak lost the appeal against his seven-and-a-half year jail sentence for disposing of the body of Ms. French, who was beaten to death in Wexford.
The mother-of-two was found dead in the boot of her burning car on October 9, 2009, on the outskirts of Wexford town.
O’Connor’s appeal has been deferred after it emerged that he dismissed his legal representation. In the court’s ruling, Mr. Justice John Murray described this as “a very grave crime indeed”.
He said Rebecca French’s body was disposed of “in a manner not befitting an animal”.
The mother-of-two’s body was found burning in the boot of her car.
No-one stands convicted of her murder.
The state believes she was beaten to death at a house in the Ard Na Dara estate in Clonard. Pasiak was one of four men convicted of impeding the investigation by dumping her body.
His lawyers appealed the severity of his jail term, arguing that the view taken by the sentencing judge was coloured by the circumstances in which the body was disposed.
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