BALLINASLOE MAN MAY HAVE SUSPENDED ARMS SENTENCE REACTIVATED

Date Published: 03-Feb-2009

A Ballinasloe man may have his four year suspended sentence for possession of a shotgun reactivated after pleading guilty to possession of a flick knife in Athlone.21 year old Martin Campbell was given a four year suspended sentence last February after he was caught in Dublin with a sawn-off shotgun he had bought with the intention of harming himself.Campbell, of Curragh Park, Hymany had received the suspended sentence on strict conditions including a good behaviour bond after he pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of the shotgun at Coultry Road, Ballymun on July 10, 2006.