2024-12-16
'Institutionalised' prisoner gets life sentence for 'vicious' murder of fellow inmate
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Not guilty
Outcome: At the time of the killing, he was serving a four and a half year sentence for robbery and other offences and was due to be released just a few days before the attack on Mr O'Connor. She imposed the mandatory life sentence for the murder of Mr O'Connor, adding that the victim's family will "serve their own life sentence" due to Dunne's crime. "When violence takes a child from a parent, no explanation is enough.