Carlow man found guilty of manslaughter

A 22 year-old Carlow man has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of a teenage father-of-one who was stabbed to death in a row in Carlow town in 2001.

At the Central Criminal Court today after more than seven hours of deliberations a jury of six men and six women unanimously found John Dillon of Granby Row, Carlow not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of Warren Slater, aged 17, at Granby Row, Carlow on May 13, 2001. Dillon had denied the charge.