Man given seven-year sentence for manslaughter of flatmate

A Slovakian father-of-two has been sentenced to seven years in prison for killing his Polish flatmate after an argument about a light being left on.

Josef Szabo (aged 51) of Rathlin House, Waterville, Blanchardstown and originally from Bratislava had been convicted by a jury of the manslaughter of 33-year-old Robert Kwiatkowski on April 20, 2007 at their apartment in Rathlin House.