Tadhg Butler pleads guilty to unlawful killing

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Tadhg Butler pleaded guilty to unlawful killing at the Central Criminal Court, reported on 16 July 2018.

The State accepted the manslaughter plea after Butler had faced three earlier murder trials involving Michael O’Dwyer.

Butler, from Seafield House in Tramore, Co Waterford, was remanded in custody until a sentence hearing on October 18th.

The report said Butler had previously been known as Thomas O’Grady and had maintained that the stabbing was accidental.