2014-07-21
Reserved judgement in appeal brought by man who murdered his best friend while he slept
Stage: Appeal
Outcome: John Paul Buck (34), last of Heywood Close, Clonmel was jailed for life by Mr Justice George Birmingham having been found guilty by a Central Criminal Court jury of fatally stabbing 30-year-old Fergus Roche at a vacant house in their estate on October 1, 2005. He then set fire to the house and was also convicted of arson, for which a concurrent five-year sentence was imposed, after a two-week trial in the Central Criminal Court.