Court rejects appeal against O’Donoghue jail sentence

THE Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday rejected an appeal by the DPP against the leniency of the four-year prison sentence imposed on student Wayne O’ Donoghue for killing his 11-year-old neighbour Robert Holohan.

The three judges of the appeal court ruled the sentencing judge Mr Justice Paul Carney had not made an error in law in imposing the sentence.

The parents of Robert Holohan, Mark and Majella, were in court for the two-minute hearing and afterwards expressed their disappointment.