A man who was captured on video camera stabbing his sister's boyfriend to death has been jailed for life in the first ever murder trial to take place outside Dublin.
Johnny 'Taz' McNamara (31), of Craeval Park, Moyross, Limerick, had pleaded not guilty to the murder of 27 year-old John O'Sullivan in Moyross on August 13th, 2001.
However, a jury of eight men and four women returned a unanimous guilty verdict yesterday at the Central Criminal Court in Limerick.
Mr O'Sullivan died following a vicious early morning row in which he was stabbed 11 times with a butcher's knife and was left to bleed to death.
At an earlier sitting, the jury heard that the accused had armed himself with the knife after he heard his sister, Ms Louise McNamara, being beaten by her boyfriend.
Johnny McNamara chased John O'Sullivan around Craeval Park to a green area at Pineview Gardens in Moyross where he stabbed him to death, the court heard. In a statement read out to the court, McNamara had described John O'Sullivan as a friend and said he did not mean to kill him.
Mr Justice Paul Carney imposed a mandatory life sentence for murder.