2022-04-08
Paralysed mum describes moment 'evil, sadistic' neighbour tried to murder her
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: The Central Criminal Court heard during today's sentence hearing that 33-year-old Dean McCarthy "burst into" Sinead Connolly's (34) home with a gun "in a rush of adrenaline" and repeatedly shot her while her eight-year-old daughter hid under the kitchen table. Dean McCarthy (33), who is Ms Connolly's neighbour, with an address at Bernard Curtis House, Bluebell Road, Dublin 12 appeared at the court today for his sentence hearing, having pleaded guilty last January to her attempted murder on March 6, 2021.