Cover up may not affect O’Donoghue’s sentence

JUDGES considering the appeal to increase child killer Wayne O’Donoghue’s sentence may be hindered by the Director of Public Prosecution’s (DPP) failure to charge the Corkman with covering up his crime.

One of the four grounds on which the DPP made the appeal was that the four-year sentence did not take into account O’Donoghue’s behaviour after he killed Robert Holohan in January 2005.

O’Donoghue moved the boy’s bicycle some distance from his home and then wrapped his body in plastic and dumped it in a ditch at Inch Strand where it was not found for eight days.