Victim's family: ‘We cannot believe his life was taken in such a cruel way’

The family of the Englishman murdered in Bandon said his four children would have to grow up without their father and that people capable of such violent acts as that committed by Ciprian Grozavu should not be allowed their freedom.

A victim-impact statement from the family of John Forrester was read to the court yesterday as Grozavu, aged 39, got the mandatory life sentence for murdering him.

“We will never come to terms with this,” the Forrester family said in the statement read at the Central Criminal Court after the jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict.