Father’s faith in justice restored as DPP appeals killer’s sentence

A LIMERICK man’s faith in the justice system has been restored following the decision to appeal the sentence given to one of his son’s killers.

Heartbroken Thomas Moloney of Cosgrave Park, Moyross, wrote to the Director of Public Prosecutions after two men who were found guilty of the manslaughter of his son, Thomas Jnr, were sentenced to three and five years in jail.

William McDonnell, aged 39, of Mary Aikenhead House, Dublin, was sentenced to five years for the attack on 27-year-old Thomas at Usher’s Quay in Dublin on April 21, 2002.