2025-01-23
'Burying your child is unnatural,' mother of murder victim tells court
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Jamie Kavanagh has spoken of feeling like "a wound that is wide open", as the man who told gardaí he wanted to kill her son "stone dead" was sentenced to life in prison at the Central Criminal Court. "Burying your child is unnatural, it changes everything about you, and a violent end adds a whole other level of despair," said Niamh McGuinness today, during the sentencing of Robert Murphy (42).