2025-11-24
Man gets life for murdering only brother 'in most brutal and frightening of circumstances'
Stage: Sentence
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; Today's sentence hearing at the Central Criminal Court was told that O'Connor had a large number of grievances against his 42-year-old brother Paudie, which ranged from money and land related matters to "issues of other women". She sentenced Fergus O'Connor to the mandatory term of life imprisonment for his brother's murder.