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# Victim Impact Statement

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2022
# Victim Impact Statement
Husband of murdered Urantsetseg Tserendorj says it is hard to carry on living after her death
Tserendorj was stabbed in Dublin city on 20 January 2021, after a teenager attempted to rob her.
# victim impact
'My heart is in pieces': Family of Santina Cawley speak out as woman found guilty of murder
Santina was just two years old when she was killed.
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# Sentencing
Man (31) sentenced to life imprisonment for Waterford murder
Stephen Keane was found guilty in May 2021 for the murder of 60-year-old John Lowe.
# Victim Impact Statement
'Since his death I am no longer living. I simply exist': Family of Cameron Blair tell court of impact of his death
A teenage boy has received a life sentence for his murder, a sentence which will be reviewed in 2032.
# victim impact
'You took the happy, young girl I used to be': Woman addresses foster father guilty of rape
The man will be sentenced on 13 November.
# Courts
Family of farmer killed by neighbour with teleporter: 'Another case of victim blaming...justice was not served'
Michael Ferris (63) drove the prongs of a teleporter into his neighbour Anthony O’Mahony after a decades-long row about a noisy bird-scarer.
# Victim Impact Statement
Daughter of murdered Noel 'Duck Egg' Kirwan: 'We'll never get our heads around this nightmare'
Kirwan was sitting in his car on 22 December 2016 when he was shot six times with a Makarov handgun.
# 'untrustworthy'
Raped woman blasts courts system for allowing victims' pasts to be used against them
The woman, who was aged 19 at the time of her ordeal in 2015, lambasted the courts for allowing her to be portrayed as ‘untrustworthy’.
# Courts
Man who raped niece on Christmas night jailed for five and a half years
The Dublin man in his 60s was jailed for raping his 41-year-old niece as she slept in her own home.
# victim impact
'I have not only lost a daughter but a best friend': Family of woman killed by boyfriend speak out
Oisin Conroy was found not guilty of the murder of Natalie McGuinness by reason of insanity.
# Victim Impact Statement
Woman raped by husband: "There was nothing I could do to stop him"
A woman who was raped by her husband has delivered a powerful victim impact statement.
# sentencing hearing
Wife of David Mahon says he is "forgiven but not forgotten" for killing her son
Audrey Mahon’s was one of three victim impact statements read out at a sentencing hearing today.
# Courts
Man sentenced for punching pregnant partner in the face
He will spend almost two years in prison.