I for one am not sad to see the back of Judge Tom O’Donnell in Limerick. As his parting gift to the people he has given another two bizarrely lenient suspended sentences for serious assaults.
Ireland needs to seriously reform the criminal justice system, including punishing the judges who have denied justice to so many victims over the years. Tom O’Donnell, like Martin Nolan in Dublin, has given countless suspended and other lenient sentences to scumbags found guilty of sexual assault and other serious crimes.
O’Donnell’s last hurrah is to suspend the sentence of a thug in the army who beat a woman unconscious and later boasted on social media about doing so. This coward should not only be dishonourably discharged from the army, he should be locked in gaol for a long time for such a heinous crime. However, in Tom O’Donnell’s twisted mind, this crime isn’t even serious enough to warrant a short time in prison.
What does someone have to do for O’Donnell to think that they should be off the streets? If this scumbag attacks another woman will he finally then go to prison or will our ‘justice’ system let him free to be yet another repeat offender?
