‘It makes us feel like life is not worth anything anymore in this country’

The family of a farmer who was “gruesomely” killed when a neighbour repeatedly drove a teleporter into him, say they “strongly believe that justice was not served” in the case and that it is “another example” of “victim blaming” in Irish courts.

Michael Ferris, aged 63, who drove the prongs of a teleporter into his neighbour, Anthony O’Mahony, 73, after a decades-long row about a noisy machine used to scare crows, was jailed for five years at the Central Criminal Court for manslaughter. Yesterday, Ms Justice Carmel Stewart sentenced Ferris to six years in prison with one year suspended, backdated to April 4, 2017, when he first went into custody.