EIGHT YEAR SENTENCE FOR CHARGES FOR BODY IN BURNT OUT CAR

Date Published: 13-Dec-2007

There were more angry scenes at Galway Courthouse today [thurs dec 13] when a man was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for charges connected to the discovery of a body in a stolen burnt out car Before the circuit criminal court was 27 year old Thomas 'Tom Tom’ McDonagh, of 35 Lios na Run, Ballybane charged in connection with the discovery of 38 year old Joseph Sweeney's bodyImmediately after Judge Raymond Groarke had imposed the sentence members of Joseph Sweeney’s family stormed out of the courtroom shouting, “You’re a dead man walking Tom Tom. You are the walking dead. We’ll get you.”