Sonia Blount’s family devastated by murder: ‘We had to tell him your Mammy is an angel now’

A Dublin man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a single mother-of-one hours after her son’s third birthday party, in what the judge described as ‘an unspeakable tragedy’ for the child.

A Dublin man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a single mother-of-one hours after her son’s third birthday party, in what the judge described as ‘an unspeakable tragedy’ for the child.

Sonia Blount’s family employed the services of a child psychologist to help explain to the boy why he would never see his mother again, the Central Criminal Court heard.