Cork brothers jailed for arson attack on house where they broke window and threw in petrol bomb

Court heard their father was murdered in Cork 30 years ago when they were children and they developed lifelong drug addictions

House owner and her children were not present when the arson was carried out, court told. File picture: Larry Cummins

Two brothers, whose father was murdered in Cork 30 years ago when they were children, were both jailed for seven years for carrying out an arson attack on a house, where they fled the scene after throwing in a petrol bomb with the parting words, “Bye Bye”. 

Judge Helen Boyle imposed sentences of eight years, with the last year suspended, in the cases against 39-year-old Robert Crinnion, of Blackwater Grove, Togher, Cork, and 33-year-old Michael Crinnion, of the same address, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.