The teenager had appealed his life sentence, with a review after 13 years, for murdering Urantsetseg Tserendorj while she walked alone on a deserted Dublin street
Does seem to have a pattern of it alright. AFAIK that's not the first time he's given a nonce a suspended sentence.
The same Judge Nolan gave the garlic/onion man a 6 year custodial sentence, and a custodial sentence of 18 months with final 9 suspended was handed down to a guy who threw paint over the Luke Kelly statue.
Surely tafaq at this stage even the legal confraternity in this country, such as it is, must have grave reservations about Nolan handing down a number of suspended sentences for Nonces.