2024-02-12
Brutal killer who left father of two to die on side of road back behind bars
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; Hillen was released from Mountjoy prison on March 30 of last year after serving five years and 11 months of a sentence of nine years with the final 12 months suspended. Two weeks later, Hillen went on a rampage in the early hours of April 14, 2023, during which he drove a car at his mother at her address and assaulted her despite just beginning the suspended portion of his sentence for the manslaughter of Mr Mulligan.