Pair sentenced for helping brothers evade apprehension after fatal stabbing

TWO people who were found guilty by a jury at the Central Criminal Court in Tralee last November of helping two brothers to evade apprehension after the brothers had stabbed a man in “a savage” killing in Killarney in 2007 were yesterday sentenced to four years in prison, with some or all of the sentences suspended.

Thomas O’Brien, aged 33, of Pinewood Estate, Killarney and Lisa O’Sullivan, aged 28, with an address in Wellington Road, Cork, and now residing at Coolies, Muckross, Killarney, had denied but were found guilty of helping Gerard and Shane O’Riordan, of Killarney, to evade arrest after the brothers had killed James Brazier, aged 30, in a house in the Pinewood Estate on April 15, 2007.

In 2009, the O’Riordans were convicted of manslaughter and were handed down sentences of 14 years, with five years suspended in the case of Shane O’Riordan and 18 months in the case of Gerard O’Riordan.