BARNA WOMAN'S APPEAL CASE ADJOURNED TO APRIL

Date Published: 20-Feb-2008

An appeal by a Barna woman against the severity of a sentence handed down last month for harassing her neighbours has been adjourned to April.Mary Griffin, from Corbally, Barna, had been sentenced to four months in prison at Galway District Court last January for continually harassing her next-door neighbours and for assaulting a Garda.She appealed the severity of those sentences to Galway Circuit Criminal Court this week, where Judge Raymond Groarke called her a “menace” before adjourning the appeal to April.