Farmer jailed after neighbour’s death in land row

A FARMER was sentenced to jail while his son and nephew got fully suspended sentences in a case where a man died after being assaulted in a long-running dispute over land boundaries.

Connie O’Sullivan, his son Finbarr O’Sullivan and nephew Thomas Byrne, pleaded guilty to assaulting John Twomey, 65, on August 19, 2008.

Yesterday, Judge Patrick J Moran imposed a three-year jail sentence, to commence on December 1 with the last 18 months suspended, on Connie O’Sullivan, whom he described as the ring leader. Finbarr O’Sullivan and Thomas Byrne, were given two-year sentences, suspended entirely.