Teenager gets 12 years for manslaughter

A Dublin teenager who stabbed and slashed a father-of-two fourteen times in the head, neck, stomach and chest has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for manslaughter, with the final four suspended at the Central Criminal Court today.

David O'Leary (aged 19) of Sheepmore Way, Blanchardstown, who was 17 at the time of the offence, was found not guilty of the murder but guilty of the manslaughter of Michael Murphy (aged 31) outside the Buda Bar in Blanchardstown on Halloween night, 2004.