Judge jails Cork man for life on murder charge

A 19-year-old Cork man has been jailed for life for the random attack on two young women which left one of them dead.

Peter Whelan, of Ashgrove in Rochestown earlier pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court today to the murder of Nicola Sweeney (aged 20) and to the attempted murder of Sinead O’Leary at Underwood House, Rochestown, Cork on April 27, 2002.