Family ‘over the moon’ at sentence for killer

A Dublin man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy McNamara, who was shot while sitting in a car in Dublin last year.

Keith Hall, aged 24, of Kilmartin Drive, Tallaght, pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to the manslaughter of Ms McCarthy McNamara in Tallaght on Feb 8, 2012.

Brendan Grehan SC, prosecuting, told the Central Criminal Court that the plea was acceptable to the DPP.