Homicide sentencing - Scant justice for families of victims

Coping with the death of a loved one is hard enough in ordinary circumstances, but it is utterly different when they are the victim of murder.

For that reason, there will be a groundswell of sympathy for the families of victims of homicide, who have a great many reasons to be dissatisfied with judicial sentencing in this country.

As a double murder investigation opens in Kerry, only those who have lost a family member to homicide know the horror of that scenario. They also know how it feels when someone who has committed murder gets a few short years behind bars — and they relive the ordeal when a perpetrator gets early release from jail.