Ex-soldier gets 8 years for killing prostitute in Westmeath

A retired member of the Defence Forces has been jailed for eight years at the Central Criminal Court after he killed a woman working as a prostitute.

In July at the Central Criminal Court, Jimmy Devaney, aged 67, of Millbrook Avenue, Monksland, Athlone, was acquitted of murdering Marie Greene in Westmeath but found guilty of her manslaughter on February 13, 2011.

It was the State’s case that Devaney murdered Ms Greene because she had been blackmailing him for money.