Thomas Rooney (53) had his Mercedes S350 forfeited to the State by an order from the Special Criminal Court
Gardaí also seized the black Mercedes S350 that the Special Criminal Court heard was in possession of Rooney’s chauffeur service company, EBT Executive Travel Ltd.
Mr Justice Hunt previously remarked that Rooney would have been better off using a “cheap banger off done deal” rather than the “high-end” Mercedes in question. Mr Fitzgerald said Rooney had worked hard all of his life in a number of businesses and had “little” involvement in criminality. He said his client was going to have to re-establish himself at the end of his jail term and that the car was an “integral item” of his past and possible future business.
Mr Fitzgerald said both Reed and Rooney had been given a headline sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment before mitigation but that his client’s guilty plea and early admissions saw Rooney receive just one year’s less jail-time than Reed, which amounted to a “disparity”. Mr Baker said that Rooney’s six-year sentence was “sound and had to be available” to the sentencing judge regarding an admitted joint enterprise for an international criminal organisation, of which he was a “trusted, mid-to-high level member”.
Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy, presiding, said the three-judge, non-jury court would reserve judgment in the matter.
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