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Life sentence for Limerick murder

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Christopher McNamara arriving at the Limerick District Court when he was first charged with murdering James Boyce.
Christopher McNamara arriving at the Central Criminal Court where he was found guilty of murdering James Boyce.

A Limerick man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a retired soldier by choking him with the handle of a sweeping brush.

Christopher McNamara (21), of Good Shepherd Villas, Pennywell Road had pleaded not guilty to the murder of 71-year-old James Boyce at his home in St Munchin’s Street, St Mary’s Park in Limerick between March 6 and 7, 2011.

The court heard that Mr Boyce had been the victim of an assault with a long striking edge and that the fatal injuries were those on his neck, where multiple fractures of the larynx were found.

The two-week trial heard that McNamara had confessed killing Mr Boyce to his mother.

In a statement read to the jury, Pauline Whelan had asked McNamara: “Did you do it son?” to which he replied: “I did, Mam”.

The statement then revealed that McNamara admitted he had choked Mr Boyce with the handle of a sweeping brush, demonstrating with his hands how he had done it.

Full report in next Thursday’s Limerick Post.

 

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