Teen alcoholic receives eight years for manslaughter

An 18-year-old alcoholic convicted of the killing of a 20-year-old in the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre in September 2005 has been sentenced to eight years in St Patrick’s Institution with the final five years suspended.

Kevin Walsh, Allenton Green, Tallaght, Dublin, who was 16 at the time of the killing, had pleaded not guilty to murdering James Burke between September 22nd and 26th 2005 at the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre, Clondalkin.