Jack Hall Ellis released after unlawful killing sentence

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Jack Hall Ellis was released after serving part of a sentence for unlawfully killing Luke O’Reilly, reported on 22 September 2023. The offence occurred in Dublin in 2017, when O’Reilly was punched while leaving a pub.

Hall Ellis had received seven years’ imprisonment, with the final two years suspended, and served three years and eight months before his release. O’Reilly’s mother later described meeting Hall Ellis in prison through a restorative-justice process.