Man gets suspended sentence for killing wife

A 62-year-old man who killed his wife when he put his hands around her neck during a struggle after she came at him with a knife has been given a six-year suspended sentence.

Man gets suspended sentence for killing wife

A 62-year-old man who killed his wife when he put his hands around her neck during a struggle after she came at him with a knife has been given a six-year suspended sentence.

Judge Patricia Ryan said Thomas Breen’s family accepted his expression of remorse as genuine and that he loved his wife Carmel very much.

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