Speaking with the Limerick Voice team at the #JusticeforJoe campaign, Aunt of Joe Drennan Julie Bennett says, “Concurrent sentencing should not apply when there’s been a fatality”.
The Limerick Voice team held a vigil this afternoon at the University of Limerick calling on the DPP to appeal the verdict following Kieran Fogarty’s sentencing last Thursday.
Fogarty was handed a six-and-a-half-year sentence for Joe’s death and eight years for a firearms offence in Limerick Circuit Court last week. Both sentences will run concurrently.
“The Irish System is Failing its Victims”
Speaking after the vigil held today at the University of Limerick, Joe Drennan’s aunt Julie Bennett calls on the DPP to appeal last week’s verdict. “The Irish system is failing its victims. It’s so sickening that Kieran Fogarty was given more leniency than Joe Drennan was given justice.”
The family of Joe Drennan have launched a petition to reform consecutive sentencing laws in Ireland for crimes involving loss of life. “No other families need to suffer this,” she says.
“The hardest thing for us to know is that Kieran Fogarty will not serve one day for killing Joe.”
“He got an eight-year sentence for shooting at a wall, and he got six and a half years for killing Joe and for leaving him to die alone on the side of the road in Limerick.”
Joe’s family are calling on the DPP to recognise this injustice and appeal the verdict. You can sign the petition here.