Carroll convicted of Corkman's manslaughter

The family of a man battered to death in Cork in 1997 hugged and cried openly as a man accused of the murder of their brother was convicted of manslaughter at the Central Criminal Court today.

After deliberating for almost nine hours, a jury of seven men and five women found Mr William "Buster" Carroll (52) not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of Thomas Harte in a derelict house on Leitrim Street, Cork, between May 19 and 10, 1997.