Man attacked neighbour after brother's murder, court told

A Dublin man who was found weeping over his murdered brother’s body has received a four-year suspended sentence for aggravated burglary at a neighbouring home shortly after the killing.

Defence counsel, Mr Sean Gillane SC, submitted that Derek Ledden (aged 28) had been drinking with friends in the city centre on St Stephen’s Day 2006 when he received a “garbled” phone call about his brother’s murder.