The DPP is appealing a four year sentence handed to a man who made knifepoint death threats while robbing three Post Offices in Cork.
Cork Circuit Criminal Court had previously heard 49-year-old Fintan Tindley of Loughmahon Avenue in Mahon, Cork had sent €19,000 to his fiancé in the United States who he had met online.
Fintan Tindley pleaded guilty to robbing the Post office on the South Douglas Road on November 11th 2022, the attempted robbery of it again seven days later and the robbery of the Post Office in Ballintemple on the 16th.
He put a knife to the neck of an elderly customer during the first raid, put a knife to the neck of a woman in her 40s at Ballintemple Post Office and threatened another woman in her 40s with a knife on November 18th.
Today at the Court of Criminal Appeal barrister Paula McCarthy for the DPP said the judge had been far too lenient when the headline sentence of nine years was reduced to five and the final year was suspended.
