Nicola Tallent
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And there was letters given in from his partner, described as a Ms.
McEntee, and they were given in support of him to the court.
Brandon, the youngest, was on bail at the time of this offence and had a suspended sentence.
He was on bail for that at the time of this?
He was on bail for that at the time of this, yeah.
Now, he had written a letter, according to his defence, apologising to Moore, a person he described that he'd known all his life.
He said that he had been affected, his mental health and his anger issues had been affected by witnessing his father's murder.
He had previously been employed and been involved in sport, but he was attending a psychologist in prison and he had completed an alternative to violence certificate.
Yeah, and he's not the same person since... The murder of his father.
Yes.
And that came in the form of a document from his partner in respect of the impact his father's murder had had on them as a couple, presumably.
Bit of a misnomer, that, because initially they were looking at giving him the eight, eight and a half years, but then because they were actually going to preserve it consecutively, they dropped it to six.
Yeah.
Now Devon, who gave in the early plea, he was described to the judges in his defence as the only one who tried to bring it all to an end and to intervene.
He participated at the outset but was described as the least culpable.
There had been psychological reports submitted to the court, which showed that he had been bullied as a child because he suffered from, whether they tie in, I don't know, he had suffered from undiagnosed dyslexia.
The impact of his father's murder, again, is also noted.
what his defense is claiming is that in the following years since that he started to experience feelings of intense anger.
He has literacy issues.
The murder of his father has a profound effect on his self-esteem and his partner has also obviously... He's a father of three and I think it was said... He's a father of three, one who has disabilities.