ISSUE NO. 1555 // 23 - 29 APRIL 2015
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When justice fails Exclusive interview by Steve Walsh A MOTHER has been left distraught after the two men who tortured and killed her grown-up son were convicted of manslaughter and not murder. After agreeing a plea bargain, Dubliners Wayne Lennon, 38, and Brian McConville, 30, admitted punching, kicking and stabbing Paul Fether, 31, to death. They were sentenced to 11 years each by a Malaga court, not the life sentences that his mother Beryl Fether, 67, felt they deserved. Beryl came to Spain in midApril, not for a holiday, but to find answers and justice for her son who was “brutally tortured and killed” at the hands of his ‘friends’ in the apartment he shared with his girlfriend in Benalmadena on April 21, 2010. The coroner’s report showed that Paul, who moved to Spain
from Ongar in Essex, UK, died over a period of one-and-a-half hours as a result of beatings combined with 44 stab wounds caused by various implements. Clutching a photograph of her
dead son in one hand and a folder full of court paperwork in the other, quietly-spoken Beryl (pictured) explained her frustration over the court trial that never was. Turn to Page 4