Cork chef has IRA-membership appeal postponed by courts
The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgment in an appeal brought by a Co Cork chef, arrested as part of the Garda investigation into IRA money-laundering following the 2004 Northern Bank robbery, against his conviction for IRA membership.
In March 2007 Don Bullman (aged 33), a chef and father of two, Leghanamore, Wilton, Co Cork, was jailed for four years at the Special Criminal Court after he was found guilty of being a member of an unlawful organisation, namely the IRA, on February 16, 2005.
Bullman was found in possession of a washing-powder box containing €94,250 after his arrest outside Heuston Station in Dublin, following a Garda surveillance operation.
He denied the charge and has appealed against both the conviction and the sentence.
Today the Court of Criminal Appeal of Mr Justice Joseph Finnegan presiding sitting with Mr Justice Declan Budd and Mr Justice Michael Hanna reserved judgment.
The court will give its decision when the courts resume after the Summer break in October.
