Son who killed mother in drug-fuelled attack in danger of becoming homeless if released

A man convicted of manslaughter following the death of his mother in Castlebar, County Mayo, in 2011 appeared for sentence at the Central Criminal Court on 8 February 2021. The defendant, aged 29, fatally stabbed his mother on 9 March 2011 at their home in Derrycrieve, Islandeady. He was initially convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014, but the Supreme Court quashed that conviction in…