CITY WOMAN GETS 9 YEAR SENTENCE FOR MERVUE KILLING

Date Published: 30-Jul-2008

A 26 year old city woman has been jailed for nine years for killing her neighbour during a drunken row over a dog.Una Black formerly of Walter Macken Flats in Mervue who is heavily pregnant, pleaded guilty in May to the manslaughter of John Malone at the flat complex where they both lived in December 2006.Mr. Justice Paul Carney in sentencing said he took into account the senseless reason for which John Malone, a father of one, had his life taken from him.