A man who stabbed a Somalian teenager to death at a Limerick refugee hostel last Christmas has been jailed for two years.
Farah Reoduane had pleaded guilty at Limerick Circuit Court to the manslaughter of 17-year-old Ali Ibrahim Lal at Sarsfield House, Limerick, on December 27th, 2008.
The court heard heard that 22 year old Farah Reoduane from Morocco “lost it” after being attacked and stabbed by Mr Lal at the Limerick Asylum Seekers hostel where they were both living.
The teenager dropped his knife during a struggle, and Reoduane picked it up, and stabbed Mr Lal once fatally in the abdomen.
Judge Carroll Moran accepted that the deceased was the initial aggressor but said there had been a loss of life and there must be a prison sentence.
