A young man who stabbed a fisherman who had smashed the front window of his Waterford home and entered in the early hours of the morning has been acquitted of his murder but found guilty of manslaughter by a unanimous jury verdict after a retrial at the Central Criminal Court.
The jury of seven women and four men took just under six hours to come to their verdict following the trial of Dean Kerrie (21), who denied murdering Jack Power. The accused, who was 17 at the time, said that Mr Power had entered his home after 3am and attacked him and his mother.
Following the verdict Mr Justice Paul McDermott refused to allow Kerrie to remain on bail and remanded him in custody until a sentencing hearing on October 19. The judge ordered a probation report and a victim impact statement from the deceased man's family. Following the verdict Mr Kerrie hugged members of his family while the deceased's family and supporters comforted one another at the back of the court.
