“It won’t be long before Jasmine’s killer will be back on the street and that is something that makes us all angry, it makes us all hurt.”
The family of Jasmine McMonagle have backed calls for tougher sentencing after her killer was jailed for 14 years.
“The McMonagle family, the wider community and the country as a whole would all feel that the sentence handed down did not fit the crime. Burke’s trial earlier this year heard gardai attended the house following a 999 call by Jasmine at 4.21am stating she was in fear for her life.A garda went to the back of the house shortly after 5am and saw Jasmine’s lifeless body in a pool of blood.
Jasmine’s sister Jenna said: “It’s very hard to wrap your head around the fact that somebody who had said on several different occasions, he expressed that he would like to do this to my sister and then he actually did it. It was a drug-related, alcohol-related thing that affected his mental health at the time, these are things he chose to do to himself. If it was our way he would never see the light of day again. We were never going to be happy with the outcome.
Jenna told Highland Radio: “A psychosis can last just a few minutes and then be fine again. It’s just very hard to accept that somebody who knew that taking drugs or drinking alcohol can affect them badly. Judge Burns said in the absence of a mental disorder the killing would have amounted to murder with a compulsory life sentence.
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