Gilligan gets two years for death threats
15/06/2006 - 11:46:56Convicted drug trafficker John Gilligan was today jailed for two years for threatening to kill two prison officers in a tuck shop row.
Gilligan, who is serving 20 years in Portlaoise high security prison for importing cannabis attacked the pair only a week into that jail sentence.
He had previously been given a five-year sentence to run consecutively with the incident but the Court of Criminal Appeal overturned that after finding it was disproportionate when combined with his sentence for drug smuggling.
The three-judge court today imposed a two-year sentence for the death threats to run consecutively to his 20 years.
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