Former solicitor for John Gilligan avoids jail after giving phone to notorious rapist in prison
A former solicitor for mob boss John Gilligan, who gave a mobile phone to an incarcerated notorious rapist, after he threatened to rape her child, has avoided jail.
Ms Kangley qualified in 2001 and was a practising solicitor since 2004. She had built up a ‘fairly high-profile clientele amongst the criminal fraternity’, the court heard. The court had previously heard that she gave the phone to the inmate at Midlands Regional Hospital, where he was a patient, after he threatened ‘I will fucking fillet you from here to here’. He also remarked that she had ‘a lovely daughter, I know all about her’.He took the phone from her bag but she could not reason with him to return it. She eventually removed the SIM card and threw the phone on the bed. She was also warned not to speak about the phone, as she knew what would happen to ‘rats’.
In February 2015, he told a prison officer that he had a phone up his rectum that she had given him and information on the phone linked it to her.The next day he reported that he had swallowed razor blades and that he required admission to hospital. Judge Keenan said the aggravating factors were the ‘serious breach of trust on the part of the accused’ and that the phone was used to ‘intimidate other parties’.
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