ODPP’S Response to Concerns in the Public Domain

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in a press release responded to recent public concerns surrounding the Firearms (Prohibition, Restriction, and Regulation) Act, 2022(FPRRA). Read the details below:

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) is aware of the concerns raised in the public domain with what is reported as the recent sentencing of the first person under the new Firearms (Prohibition, Restriction, and Regulation) Act, 2022 which came into effect on November 1, 2022. Upon further consultation and review of the FPRRA and the specific facts of this case (Rex v Dennis Mundell), the ODPP has formed the considered view that the interest of justice may be best served if a review and appeal of the sentence of Four (4) Years and Three(3) months imprisonment is pursued in the Court of Appeal. 

This view is held having regard to varying legal practitioner interpretations of sections 3, 4, 45(2) (including the penalty provision outlined in the Sixth Schedule of the FPRRA at page 115), 101(6), and 101(8) of the FPRRA and the consequential amendments to the Criminal Justice Administration Act (referred to in the Seventh Schedule of the FPRRA). The ODPP will therefore take the appropriate administrative steps within the course of this week to file the relevant appeal so that the Court of Appeal can pronounce upon the appropriateness of the sentence after having reviewed the aforementioned provisions of the FPRRA. 

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