Terence ‘Terry” Connors jailed for manslaughter in Dublin

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Terence ‘Terry” Connors was jailed for manslaughter at the Central Criminal Court on 20 February 2017. He was sentenced to seven years, with the final two years suspended, for killing Peter Conroy. The proceedings were reported on 20 February 2017.

Connors had originally faced a murder charge. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and not guilty to murder, but the State rejected that plea; a jury later convicted him of manslaughter after a one-week trial.

The court also imposed two months’ imprisonment for assaulting Elaine Blunt during the same brawl, with that sentence suspended in full. The manslaughter sentence was backdated to 1 October 2015.

The report said Connors told gardaí he had heard his children shouting and believed they were in danger before taking a knife downstairs. Justice Paul Butler said returning with the knife aggravated the sentence, while the killing lacked the intention required for murder.