Re-offender gets six years for series of robberies

A chronic drug addict who fell back into re-offending after being released from a five-year sentence for fatally stabbing his brother has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment for a series of robberies.

Michael Rooney Dignam (aged 27), whose dysfunctional childhood was described as having the "quality of nightmares", was jailed for five years in 2001 for the tragic manslaughter of his teenage brother in a domestic row which escalated out of control.