Pinder guilty of killing McGrath, but not guilty of murder

A 47-year-old Liverpool man has been found guilty of the manslaughter of his fiancée’s father 23 years ago, but has been cleared of his murder.

Colin Pinder had pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to the manslaughter of 43-year-old Bernard Brian McGrath, at the victim’s home in Lower Coole, Westmeath between March 10 and April 18, 1987.