Christopher O’Sullivan had pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Timothy “Timmy” Hourihane in 2019 at a “tented village” in Cork city.
A 40-YEAR-OLD man has been jailed for life after kicking and stamping a fellow homeless man to the extent that he was “almost unrecognisable” to family members who identified his body.
Detective Superintendent Michael Comyns said that the assault on a grass verge was so severe that one of the teeth of the victim was found in his stomach at his postmortem. O’Sullivan was originally due to stand trial for murder. However, he pleaded guilty to manslaughter last year after he was informed that such a plea was acceptable to the State.Detective Superintendent Michael Comyns told the hearing that Timmy Hourihane, O’Sullivan and his co-accused James Brady were living in the tented village in the Mardyke near UCC in October 2019.
Detective Superintendent Comyns said that the men starting “kicking and stamping” Timmy Hourihane until he fell to the ground. O’Sullivan has 48 previous convictions for extremely serious and violent crimes including assault causing serious harm, robbery, burglary, criminal damage, drugs offences and possession of knives.
“You don’t get those kinds of injuries my Dad sustained if they weren’t trying to end his life. I pray that the person involved is dealt with severely as he has left a son without a father, a mother without a son and siblings without their brother. As an only child I feel like I need to fight for him [Timmy Hourihane] until the end.
Roisin Lacey, SC for the defence, said that her client wanted to offer his sincere apology to the family of Mr Hourihane for his role in the death of their loved one. In sentencing Mr Justice Paul McDermott said that O’Sullivan and his accomplice had carried out a “shocking, unrelenting and savage assault on a helpless man who lay prone on the ground”.“He has an awful history of offences against the person. In the 2007 attack the accused inflicted catastrophic injuries on a man.Mr Justice McDermott said that O’Sullivan had a childhood which made for harrowing reading. However, he has yet to address his “deep rooted issues.
He added that O’Sullivan was the more active participant in the attack on Mr Hourihane and that there was a difference in the age and convictions which meant that the defendant merited a higher sentence than his co accused.Meanwhile, in April of last year James Brady of Shannon Lawn in Mayfield, Cork was jailed for 11 years for the manslaughter of Mr Hourihane.
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