Man who stabbed fisherman 40 times in cocaine row jailed for 10 years

Darren Houlden, aged 44, with an address at The Crescent, Meadowvale, Arklow, Co Wicklow, was found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter. Picture: Collins Courts

 A man who was wearing blood-stained clothes and carrying a knife when he walked into a garda station and admitted to stabbing a fisherman 40 times after a row over missing crack cocaine has been jailed for ten years for manslaughter.

As trial judge Ms Justice Carmel Stewart was expressing her condolences to Stephen "Apples" Kavanagh's family, the deceased's sister, Kim Kavanagh, stood up and held a framed picture of her brother to the courtroom saying: "That's my brother who was hacked to death 40 times and had his throat cut by him."