Man kills brother during funeral ceremony
A man has been convicted of killing his older brother during a funeral in County Kerry, Ireland.
Patrick Dooley, risiding in Arbutus Grove in Killarney, has become the fourth person to be convicted for the murder of Thomas Dooley in 2022.
The 42-year-old Thomas was attacked by a gang of men armed with weapons during the ceremony at Rath Cemetery in Tralee. In the course of the attack, his wife Siobhán Dooley, was also seriously injured during the attack.
The victim was a father of seven children who lived at Hazelwood Drive, Ballyspillane in Killarney.
His 36-year-old sibling Patrick was among the six people who were put on trial for the murder, most of whom were also related to the victim.
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On Thursday, two men and a male teenager were convicted of Thomas Dooley’s murder by a jury at the Central Criminal Court in Cork.
The jury is scheduled to reconvene deliberations on Tuesday in the case of the remaining two defendants, who are both cousins of the victim.
The defendants are 29-year-old Michael Dooley of Bay 11, Halting Site, Carrigrohane Road in Cork, and 42-year-old Daniel Dooley, of An Carraigín, Connolly Park, Tralee in County Kerry.
Proofreading, editing by Jamila Yunusa Suleiman and Maryam Sulaiman, Editor and Journalist at Neptune Prime.
