Kerry farmer convicted of manslaughter of 73-year-old neighbour has four years added to sentence

A North Kerry bachelor farmer convicted of the manslaughter of a 73-year-old neighbour by driving the pronged forks of an agricultural teleporter into his car in a row over a loud crow-banger had his five-year jail term replaced with a sentence of nine years in jail today.

The Director of Public Prosecutions appealed the sentence for undue leniency. In effect today, four years were added to the sentence.