Emigrant group criticises sentence for Irishman’s killer

A group representing Irish emigrants in Britain has criticised the sentence handed down to an Englishman convicted of killing a homeless Irishman in London last year.

Dunstan Howells, aged 33, was jailed for seven years last week for beating 54-year-old Sean McCaffrey to death during a row over a stray dog.

The two men had been sharing a squat in the Wood Green area of London.

The Irish in Britain support group said it was concerned by the verdict in this and other cases involving Irish victims. It said Mr McCaffrey was one of many Irish people marginalised and let down by the British system and that, even in death, he received little justice.