Homeless deaf man ‘a danger to society’

A homeless deaf mute man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for killing an acquaintance by knocking him under a bus in Dublin on December 2012.

On handing down the sentence, Judge Patrick McCartan said he had no choice but to imprison Edward Connors as he was a “serious danger to society”.

A Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury previously found Connors, aged 30, guilty following an eight-day manslaughter trial. Connors had pleaded not guilty to unlawfully killing Eoghan Dudley, aged 28, on December 6, 2012. Mr Dudley died almost instantly from “catastrophic and traumatic injuries” after going under the left rear wheel of the bus on Dawson St during rush-hour traffic.