DPP to appeal leniency of manslaughter sentences

THE Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is to appeal against the leniency of sentences handed down to two men jailed earlier this month for “a cowardly and unprovoked attack” that killed Clare schoolteacher Brian Casey.

At Ennis Circuit Court on November 8, Judge Carroll Moran imposed a five-year jail term on Harry Dinan, 31, of 10, Waterpark Heights, Ennis, for the December 26, 2009, manslaughter, and a four-year term, for the same offence, on his nephew, Kevin Dinan, 24, of 3 Clarehill, Clarecastle.

Yesterday, a spokesman at Ennis Garda Station stated the DPP had confirmed it is lodging appeals against the leniency of the sentences handed down.