Jason Murray sentenced Paul Rowlands for a mangelotter

A 42 -year -old man has been sentenced to a minimum of eight years for killing his friend in a county entream.

Jason died last week, with a address in HMP Magbury, Illegally admitted to killing 46 -year -old Paul Rollands On 18 July 2022 in the Bath Terrace Area of ​​Portrash.

The court heard that after Murray attacked Mr. Rowlands, he went to a nearby bar and said: “I now kill people, I am a hitman.”

Mr. Justice O’Hara said that the family of Mr. Rowlands was “struggling to face” after his death. He said that “life has changed for all of them, life is difficult for all of them, because life will never be the same for them all”.

“Every family member struggles in his own way to deal with the loss of Paul Rowlands,” he said, “Regularly to contact them to tell them about small things to stay to stop suddenly when he remembers him when he remembers that he has gone,” he said.

The judge told the court that the dead “is an addictive and an addictive and his ability to use self-control was impaired”.

A parole officer concluded that “violence was somewhat inherent in Mr. Murray” and he introduced “an important risk to the public”, the judge said.

Mr. Justice O’Hara said that it “reminds what happens again when people are addicted to drinks and drugs and deny help”.

He said that after the deadly attack, Murray “left the scene and left the Mr. Rolands dead or left dead, showing indifference to his fate”.

While sentenced to at least eight years of jail to Murray, Judge O’Hara said, “It will be to decide whether he will be up to the parole board to decide if he is fit to be released after eight years”.

“If they decide that he is not fit to be released, he will remain in jail.”

Mr. Rownds was originally from Cambridge, England, but he was more homeless and lived in tents at the East Strand, Portrash at that time.

Murray’s mangalator’s petition was accepted on low responsibility due to mental abnormalities.

In the last hearing, the court was told on 18 July 2022 on 02:15 BST, an ambulance service received a report that a person was lying on the ground in bath terrace.

When emergency services reached the spot, Mr. Rollands was lying on his back between two cars with a puddle of blood from his head.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

A post mortem examination concluded that Mr. Rowlands faced the brain bleeding as a result of his head and neck blunt shock, causing him to die and had a considerable level of alcohol in his system.

Speaking outside the court, Mr. Rowlands daughter, Lean Rollands said “Dad was in the heart of our family”.

“He was a brother, father, son. He loved all of us.”

He said that his father’s death was “cruel and untimely” and he “reverse our lives”.

He said “he will never be happy to know his grandson”.

“He was calm to the outside world,” he said.

“He loved Hu and Man United. He loved us, his niece and nephew too.

“The last three years have been very difficult.”

In a statement after Murray’s sentence on Tuesday, DET Inspector Claire Claire McGrave described Mr. Rowlands as “Five lovers of five”.

He said that the police is “grateful” for witnesses who “come forward to support our investigation”.

He said: “In a fuel attack by alcohol, it was the most insensitive and tragic loss of a man’s life.

“Here, the results of the results in an oral change after the physical explosion were the most destructive and irreversible.”

The court had earlier heard that when Murray was arrested by the police on July 18, he admitted that he was with Mr. Rowlands on July 17, saying that the pair had issues.

Barrister Sam Maggi Casey said that Murray told the police that there was a fight that Mr. Rowlands slapped the two men each.

Murray told the police that he considers the fight as “TIFF”, told to the court.

Mr. Maggi said that Mr. Rowlands traveled from England a month before his death and was unemployed with the history of alcohol and drug abuse.

The court was told that Mr. Rownds and dead had become friends because both were homeless and lived in tents and spent their days “drinking, fishing and taking drugs”.

Mr. Maggi told the court: “The defendant left the scene, leaving the deceased dying or leaving the dead, showing indifference to the fate of the deceased and continued to drink.”

Defense barrister Gavan Dafi Casey told the court that “had no question” that Murray arrived in the nearby bar after the fight “very, very heavy drunk”.

Raksha said that Murray should “live there and pay attention to what happened and remained to accept responsibility”.

The court was told that Murray experienced “brutal upbringing” and had a history of mental health issues including the border personality disorder (BPD) and Post Tramatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).