State 'bending rules' for Rochestown murderer, grieving families say

The State is “bending the rules” for a convicted killer, who stabbed a student to death in her bedroom and left her heavily bleeding friend for dead, by releasing him to see family.

Peter Whelan broke into the home of Nichola Sweeney, then 20, who was getting ready for a night out with her best friend Sinead O’Leary, then 19, in Rochestown, Co Cork on a motiveless, murderous rampage.