The Court of Criminal Appeal has refused to reduce a ten-year sentence imposed on a Dublin man for the manslaughter of another man four years ago.
Stephen Aherne (19), formerly of Willington Crescent, Templeogue, and with an address in Newbridge, Co Kildare, was jailed for his part in 19-year-old Mr Brian Mulvaney's death in Templeogue on March 11th, 2000.
Aherne was 15 at the time of the manslaughter.
Besides the 10-year term, he also received a three-year concurrent jail sentence for two separate assaults, one involving a broken pint glass, in the hours preceding the fatal attack on Mr Mulvaney.
Two months after a jury convicted him of Mr Mulvaney's manslaughter, Aherne pleaded guilty to assault causing harm to Mr Matthew O'Dowd at Templeogue Road, Terenure, on March 11th, 2000.
He also pleaded guilty to an assault in which he produced a drinking glass in a manner likely to intimidate Mr Karl Dunne at Templeogue Road on the same date.
A second man, Brian Willoughby (24), is serving a life sentence for Mr Mulvaney's murder following his conviction by a jury in April last year. A third man, Neal Barbour (20), Domville Road, Templeogue, was acquitted.