DPP awaits appeal decision against O’Donoghue sentence

THE Director of Public Prosecutions will learn next week if his appeal over the leniency of the sentence handed down to child killer Wayne O’Donoghue was successful.

The Court of Criminal Appeal will deliver its judgment on Wednesday next.

O’Donoghue had been charged with murdering his neighbour Robert Holohanat Ballyedmond, Middleton, Cork, on January 4, 2005. He was acquitted by jury in December 2005 but had pleaded guilty to his manslaughter. Mr Justice Paul Carney sentenced the CIT engineering student to four years in jail in January.