Son who killed mother in drug-fuelled attack in danger of becoming homeless if released

A man convicted of killing his mother in Castlebar, County Mayo, appeared for sentence at the Central Criminal Court in February 2021 following a landmark Supreme Court decision that had overturned his original murder conviction two years earlier. The defendant, aged 29, fatally stabbed his mother at their home in Derrycrieve, Islandeady, on 9 March 2011 when he was 19 years old. He was initially found guilty of…