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Couple convicted over Joel neglect case escape jail

Two people have been sentenced to 240 hours community service in lieu of two years suspended sentence for the unlawful neglect of Evelyn Joel in Enniscorthy in 2006.

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Eleanor Joel, daughter of Evelyn and Jonathan Costen of Cluain Dara Enniscorthy were found guilty in December.

The two year sentence was suspended for two years, on condition of good behaviour.

Judge Sean O’Donobhain said the evidence was gruesome in relation to how a terminally ill woman was abandoned in her own filth and he said the picture painted was one of almost mediaeval neglect.
 

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