A Dublin man who threw a petrol bomb into a house two years ago, killing a sleeping child, was sentenced to 10 years yesterday, with the final three years suspended.
Last November a jury found Gerard Redmond (36), a father of six, Ferrycarrig Park, Fairfield, Coolock, not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of Adam Lieghio at a house in Buttercup Park, Darndale, on July 23rd, 2000.
Adam Lieghio was a month short of his second birthday when he died of smoke and gas inhalation from the firebomb attack on his grandmother's home.
Five others, including the child's grandmother, his mother, a teenage boy and two children aged 10 and three, were in the house at the time. All managed to escape except Adam. Redmond had firebombed the house to take revenge on a member of the family who had earlier struck him.