Grandfather heartbroken over O’Donoghue’s ‘disgraceful’ sentence

THE grandfather of schoolboy Robert Holohan has branded the four-year sentence handed down to his killer as “disgraceful” and believes he should have been given at least 10 years in jail.

A clearly heartbroken William Murray said he hoped the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) would appeal against the sentence given to Wayne O’Donoghue, especially as the engineering student went to great lengths to try and dispose of the 11-year-old boy’s body.

Robert’s mother, Majella Holohan, is expected to write to the DPP today objecting to the leniency of the jail term imposed on O’Donoghue, who is currently in the Midlands Prison in Portlaoise.