A Dublin man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for the unlawful killing of a kitchen porter who died after the home he was living in was set on fire.
Dean Boland (35) had broken into a downstairs apartment of a Dublin residential property where Ohari Viera was living, stole a rucksack and set fire to the property. Mr Viera had been living in an upstairs apartment with two other men, and all three managed to evacuate the building safely as soon as they became aware of the fire downstairs.
The men were waiting outside when Mr Viera went back into the house for an unknown reason. He never returned and others who tried to go into the property after him were prevented in doing as the building became engulfed in smoke and flames.
