Damien Singleton sentenced to life for O’Connell Street murder

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Damien Singleton was sentenced to life for Peter Donnelly’s murder at the Central Criminal Court on 3 December 2021.

Donnelly was stabbed on O’Connell Street in Dublin on 11 June 2019. Singleton had pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter; a jury later found him guilty of murder.