Galway Bay fm newsroom - Judgement has been reserved in Marian Lingurar Jnr's appeal against the severity of his sentence for the killing of Oughterard publican John Kenny in 2011
His lawyers told the Court of Appeal yesterday that the judge who sentenced him to nine years’ imprisonment for the manslaughter of his employer during a violent robbery failed to take into account his young age at the time of the offence.
Marian Lingurar Jnr was 16 when 56 year old publican John Kenny was badly beaten, tied up and left to die alone on the floor of the ladies’ toilet in his public house, Kenny’s pub in Oughterard by a gang of men, including Lingurar, on September 25, 2011.
Now aged 27, Lingurar is appealing the severity of the sentence imposed by Judge Rory McCabe at Galway Circuit Criminal Court in May 2019.
Referring to the transcript of proceedings from the trial, Patrick Gageby SC, for the Director of Public Prosecutions said it seems that the trial judge did factor in youth and moral culpability when fixing the headline sentence.
Judgment has been reserved in the appeal against the severity of the sentence.
Last July, the Court of Appeal refused to allow Lingurar leave to appeal his manslaughter conviction, in a hearing where the dead man’s daughter, Gillian Kenny, had asked the court not to allow the appeal to proceed.
