Patrick Keating sentenced to life for Waterford murder

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Patrick Keating was sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment for murder at the Central Criminal Court, as reported on 18 October 2013. Joe O’Brien died after being attacked by three people in an apartment on William Street, Waterford, on 23 April 2012. The report said Keating hit Mr O’Brien with a dumbbell and stamped on his head and chest. The jury found Keating guilty after two hours of deliberations. Two women had pleaded guilty to unlawfully killing Mr O’Brien and were due to be sentenced in December.

This report covers an earlier stage of the case. Later developments are not reported here.