Mother waits five years for justice... in vain

SARAH FITZPATRICK is strong.

Five years after her son was beaten to death, four years after her husband died of a broken heart, she is coping.

But Mrs Fitzpatrick, a mother of six other children and 13 grandchildren, is also angry that she has been forced by the judicial system to wait half a decade for justice to be done. And then see the trial of two young men, accused of her son’s murder, collapse.