'Quiet young boy' sentenced to two years for stabbing his mother's ex-boyfriend

A young man of "excellent character" who stabbed his mother's violent, heroin-using, ex-boyfriend to death during a row at the family home has been sentenced to two years in prison.

Mr Justice Michael White at the Central Criminal Court said Alexander Whelan introduced a deadly weapon into a row at his home and used substantial force in inflicting the wounds that killed Bruno Rolandi.