New Age Travellers plead guilty to manslaughter

Three new age travellers on trial for the murder of a man on a mountainside in Leitrim in 1998 have had pleas of manslaughter accepted by the DPP.

New Age Travellers plead guilty to manslaughter

Three new age travellers on trial for the murder of a man on a mountainside in Leitrim in 1998 have had pleas of manslaughter accepted by the DPP.

The three will now face sentencing for manslaughter in October. They are alleged to have confronted a man who they wanted to leave their campsite and beaten him so severely that he died from his injuries. A pickaxe and an iron bar were used in the attack.

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