2026-03-20
'Nuisance' offender gets life for murdering 'drunken bowsie' after 'lewd requests'
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Not guilty
Outcome: Photo: Collins) A "nuisance" offender who meted out a "volley of violence" on a defenceless "drunken bowsie" in response to his mother being insulted with lewd requests for sex has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. Mr Justice McDermott said there was only one sentence that could be imposed and that was imprisonment for life.