Killer gets 7 years for arson

A man jailed for life last month for murdering a woman in Cork has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for arson.

Darren Murphy, aged 37, of Dan Desmond Villas, Passage West, Co Cork, had pleaded not guilty to murdering Olivia Dunlea, aged 36, at Pembroke Crescent, Passage West, on February 17, 2013, but had pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

Murphy, who admitted setting fire to Ms Dunlea’s home because, he claimed, he “didn’t want the kids to find her,” had pleaded guilty to arson.