Tipperary father of two receives life sentence for death of man at house party

A Tipperary father of two who shot another man in the face at a house party in Clonmel in 2006 has been jailed for life.

Thirty three year old Leigh Crowe with an address at Elm Park, Clonmel, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 25-year-old Owen Cahill, the attempted murder of Mark Doolan at the party on April 2 2006 and the assault causing harm of Sharon Rossiter.

The Central Criminal Court heard that on the night of the incident two masked men entered the house on the outskirts of Clonmel carrying a double barrelled sawn off shotgun and a pump action shotgun and one of them walked up to Mr Cahill and shot him in the face at point blank range.