Santina Cawley's father avoids jail for assaulting her killer who is to appeal conviction

Defence solicitor, Frank Buttimer, referred to Karen Harrington’s victim impact statement as a 'so-called victim impact statement'

Michael Cawley (pictured) "in a kind of rage, he picked the person who he believed – correctly as it is now confirmed – was responsible for the death of his daughter," the court heard. Picture: Dan Linehan

The father of murdered infant, Santina Cawley, attacked the woman responsible for the murder when he encountered her by chance on a bus in Cork city and he immediately presented himself at a garda station to confess his crime.

Now, Michael Cawley has been given a suspended jail term on the charge of assault causing harm to his ex-partner, Karen Harrington. It also emerged that Karen Harrington is appealing her conviction for murdering Santina Cawley.