Appeal court reduces sentence for stabbing of mother

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reduced the eight-year prison sentence imposed on Kelly Noble for the stabbing to death of a young mother of two outside a supermarket by two years.

Last March at the Central Criminal Court Kelly Noble (aged 22), Seaview in Laytown, Co Meath, was found not guilty of the murder of Emma McLoughlin (aged 19), who was stabbed in the chest in Laytown, Co Meath, on June 2, 2006. However the jury found her guilty of Ms McLoughlin's manslaughter.