Andrew Nash gets 13 years for 'vicious' killing of mother's partner in Skibbereen

In court today, Mr Nash said he is "deeply ashamed and disgusted with myself" and apologised to the victim's family

Andrew Nash had repeatedly dropped a couch on his defenceless victim's head. File picture: Dan Linehan

A father-of-five who beat his mother's partner to death during a "vicious and sustained" assault — during which he repeatedly dropped a couch on his defenceless victim's head — has been jailed for 13 years by a judge at the Central Criminal Court.

Andrew Nash pleaded guilty to manslaughter four days into his trial earlier this year where he had been accused of murdering John Ustic (51). The State accepted his plea and on Friday Mr Justice Michael MacGrath passed sentence on Nash, who had told others before the assault that Mr Ustic had been "at his mother".