Ireland Crime

Named as

Victim

Offences

False imprisonment

Where

Co. Clare

Reporting

1 report, 5 Jun 2025 to 5 Jun 2025

Outlets

Courts Service judgment

• Donegan's Co Clare false imprisonment sentence reviewed by Court of Appeal False imprisonment · Co. Clare

  On 9 November 2022, Scott Donegan, a 38-year-old man, was charged with falsely imprisoning his ex-partner, a woman, at his home in Knockmore, Kilmilhil, Co Clare, where she was allegedly held against her will for four hours while he ran at her with a kitchen knife and told her he had a shotgun and a Glock handgun. Additional charges of sexual assault, threatening to kill, and producing a kitchen knife were brought at Ennis District Court. In April 2023, Donegan pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and possession of a kitchen knife, with the sexual assault and threatening-to-kill charges struck out. On 25 September 2023, Judge Francis Comerford at Ennis Circuit Court sentenced him to a total of seven years and 10 months, combining a six-year, 11-month term for the false imprisonment with a separate sentence for a 2021 threat-to-kill offence. In June 2025, the Court of Appeal reviewed the sentence at the DPP's application as unduly lenient.

  Sentenced, 25 Sep 2023Victim · 1 report

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1. 5 Jun2025
   In courtCourts Service judgment, in Donegan's Co Clare false imprisonment sentence reviewed by Court of Appeal

   [2025] IECA 168 Court of Appeal: The Director of Public Prosecutions -v- Scott Donegan

   victim, William Martin, male, irish (judged from name)William Martin♂IE

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