A ringleader in a multi-million pound tax fraud should have been spared jail due to the impact on his son, the Court of Appeal heard today.
Defence counsel argued there were exceptional family circumstances which meant the jail term should have been suspended.Devlin’s son has a medical condition which has worsened due to his imprisonment, it was contended.Devlin, of Bristow Park in Belfast, was among 27 people convicted following a decade-long HMRC investigation.
Investigators secretly recorded members of the gang plotting their crimes at accountancy offices in Belfast. Devlin, who was a partner in the accountancy firm used as a base, pleaded guilty to conspiring to cheat the public revenue and conspiracy to convert criminal property.Appealing that sentence, his lawyers did not dispute the length of the term imposed.But it was contended that the trial judge got it wrong in balancing the competing public and private interests in the case.
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