Family disappointed at four years in jail for man who killed over €100 debt

A 24-year-old who killed a drug dealer during an argument over a €100 debt was yesterday sentenced to four years in prison.

Last month, at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, a jury found William Gilsenan, aged 24, not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of Edward Fitzgerald, 29, in a car park outside the killer’s home at The Green, Larch Hill, Oscar Traynor Rd, Santry, Dublin 17, on October 17, 2014.

Sentencing Gilsenan, Mr Justice Paul Butler said he accepted the jury’s decision that it was not an intentional killing.