Man in heroin death-case has sentence reduced

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reduced the jail sentence imposed on a 33-year-old Limerick man for the manslaughter of his friend whom he injected with heroin and was later found dead in a laneway from seven to five years.

Last year Mark Naughton, with an address at Meat Market Lane, Limerick, pleaded guilty at Limerick Circuit Court to the manslaughter of Patrick O'Donoghue in the City on the night of September 8/9, 2005.