MAN JAILED FOR STABBING INTRUDER AS A TEEN

A man, who stabbed an intruder in his home to death as a teenager, has been jailed. The 21-year-old Dean Kerrie, who at the time was just 17, stabbed Jack Power in the chest. Power believed Kerrie had damaged his car so he broke a window to get into the house in Waterford south east Ireland. Kerrie stabbed Power once through the chest and he died at the scene.

Mr Power stormed into Kerrie's bedroom and it was suggested to the court that his mother was also caught up and assaulted in the melee. Kerrie said he found the knife at his bedside, but reports found the court did not believe that to be the truth. Dean called the police himself and was found crying in the kitchen once they got there.

He was convicted of manslaughter as they decided he acted in self defence but the judge said that although he didn't start the trouble, the convicted man had resorted to excessive and disproportionate violence by using a knife on someone who was unarmed.

Mr Power was described as an "exceptionally hard-working young man" who was "fuelled by his father's encouragement".



The judge imposed a sentence of four years and six months, suspending the final year to take into account time already served.

Source: Metro