Cork man weeps in court as he receives suspended sentence for Kanturk pub manslaughter

A suspended three-year sentence has been imposed on a 28-year-old Kanturk man who was convicted by a jury of the manslaughter of a 65-year-old local at a bar in the town in 2016.

Cork man weeps in court as he receives suspended sentence for Kanturk pub manslaughter

A suspended three-year sentence has been imposed on a 28-year-old Kanturk man who was convicted by a jury of the manslaughter of a 65-year-old local at a bar in the town in 2016.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said, “The verdict, rather than the sentence, is the important thing in this case. It is the verdict of 12 objective people as to what happened.”

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