‘We have no doubt Amy was pining for us on the night she was killed’

The family of the woman murdered by her boyfriend in a squat in Cork spoke yesterday of their relief at the guilty verdict in the case.

‘We have no doubt Amy was pining for us on the night she was killed’

We are relieved at the sentence, but we are still left without a sister and a little boy is left without his mother. We hope we can get some closure and remember Amy the way we knew and very much loved her,” said Jessie McCarthy, sister of the late Amy McCarthy.

The family assembled yesterday afternoon back at the courthouse on Anglesea St where Adam O’Keeffe was jailed for life on Friday for murdering Amy.

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