Anger at killer’s bid to do time in Portugal

MORE THAN 4,000 people have emailed Justice Minister Michael McDowell expressing outrage that a convicted Portuguese national, who repeatedly shot a young woman, leaving her to bleed to death in a hotel basement, could be sent home.

On Friday, the family of Gráinne Dillon will meet Mr McDowell to argue against the repatriation of her killer, who is serving a mandatory life sentence since March of this year.

On the night of January 5, 2002, Paulo Alexander Nascimento, 27, had been employed for six days at Jurys Inn Limerick, when he shot the 24-year-old trainee manager at close range three times with a single-barreled shotgun.