Eamon Dillon

But they asked the court to kind of keep in mind that

You know, there's another family in a sense and to leave some kind of room, I suppose, for rehabilitation and that there's two young children, McGoverns, who have done no wrong, but again, stress that they're not the victims in this case.

And there was an uncle, one from an uncle as well.

And he said, look, the charges, whether it was his charge or it doesn't affect the entirety of the individual was the way it was put.

And the possibility of rehabilitation is always there and he will return to the community as a father and as a son.

No, and generally, like in courts, if you write in testimonials, people have to be available to give evidence that they did actually give this testimonial.

But no, I don't think there was.

I'm not sure.

I'm pretty sure there wasn't.

There was members of the Ciarán family were there again today.

There was a governor's report handed in as well, which says he'd been in an enhanced regime since last August.

There was no indication of any untoward behavior, as they put it, and that he's likely to work within that system in high security prison in Port Leeds as best he can.

There's not going to be a disciplinary problem with him.

It's hardly a glowing testimonial, is it?

It's the bare bones, really, to be honest.

Yeah, but there's less access to do any kind of programs in prison when you're on your mand.

It's a simple fact that generally you don't get to do any of that stuff to start your rehab.

And there was one kind of, I suppose, an important part of this mitigation is that Michael Bowman said he was expressly instructed to offer an apology to all those impacted, harmed or hurt by his actions.

Yeah, I think he's certainly trying to give the impression he's remaining stoic about this, you know, and that he's, you know, there's an element of stiff upper lip.

Yeah.