A killer who told investigating gardai he couldn't have been identified at the scene of a shooting because he was wearing a balaclava was jailed for life yesterday 8 October 2007.
33 year old Leigh Crowe, a father of two from Elm Park in Clonmel, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Eoin Cahill at a house near Kilganey in April 2006. Crowe and another man entered the house with a sawn off shotgun and a pump action shotgun. One of the men blasted 25 year old Cahill in the face at point blank range. The victim was said to have died "almost instanteously"
Crowe's defence claimed he believed Cahill responsible for an incident 18 months before when he was shot in front of his partner and kids. He was also said to have been drinking heaving and taking 'speed' to the extent he had not slept for several days at the time of the shooting
Sergeant Barry O'Riordan said that when investigating gardai told Crowe he had been identified at the scene he replied"That's bullshit, nobody saw me.I had a balaclava and gloves"
Party goer Mark Doolan,who tried to stop Crowe, was also shot in the arm. Crowe admitted to trying to murder Mr Doolan and assault causing harm to Sharon Rossiter at the same party. He was sentenced to life for Cahill's death and to 15 years for the attempt on Mark Doolan and 5 years for assaulting Ms Rossiter. All sentences are to run concurrently and be backdated to date of Crowe's arrest
Leigh Crowe was said to have had 8 convictions for assault, 2 of them serious and his total offending added up to 23 previous convictions
In a victim impact statement Cahill's mother Catherine said she did not hate the killer but wanted justice. She said she couldn't express the pain and hurt caused to the whole family as a result of losing her son
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