Parents’ fears for effect of prison life on their son
O’Dwyer, 21, was sentenced to six years in jail earlier this week for the manslaughter of 19-year-old Marguerite at the family home in Ennistymon, Co Clare, in November 2004 while he was suffering a psychiatric episode.
A jury found him guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, the first time such a verdict has been handed down here, but the judge had only the usual options of prison or a suspended sentence to impose on him.
