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A Tipperary father of two who shot another man in the face at a house party in Clonmel in 2006 has been jailed for life by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.
Leigh Crowe, aged 33, with an address at Elm Park, Clonmel, Tipperary pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 25-year-old Owen Cahill, the attempted murder of Mark Doolan at the party on April 2 nd 2006 and the assault causing harm of Sharon Rossiter.
On the night of the incident two masked men entered the house on the outskirts of Clonmel carrying a double barrelled sawn off shotgun and a pump action shotgun. Sgt Barry O'Riordan told Mr Denis Vaughan Buckley SC, prosecuting, that one of the men walked up to Mr Cahill and shot in the face at point blank range. He died "almost instantaneously".
Mr Doolan managed to distract the gunmen momentarily but received a gunshot wound to the upper right arm. Mr Vaughan Buckley told the Court Mr Doolan was still receiving treatment for his injuries.
Sgt O'Riordan said that when Crowe was interview he asked gardaĆ* what evidence they had against him. They told him he had been identified at the scene. Crowe replied "that's bullshit. Nobody saw me. I had a balaclava and gloves." He told gardaĆ* that if he went to prison "they" would get him but if he got out of the situation he would "go to Spain and never be seen again."
He told Mr Vaughan Buckley that Crowe had a total of 23 previous convictions including eight convictions for assault two of which included serious assault.
Originally posted by Neil Purvis:
How do you get manslaughter for shooting someone point blank in the face but attempted murder for shooting someone in the arm?
Originally posted by Razor Eddie:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Neil Purvis:
How do you get manslaughter for shooting someone point blank in the face but attempted murder for shooting someone in the arm?
You can't attempt manslaughter, basically. :p </BLOCKQUOTE>
Surely that would clearly be murder, its not like he accidentally shot him point blank in the face and didn't mean to kill him.
I had a balaclava and gloves! 
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