Updated: 14 Feb 2021, 0:07
THE anguished family of a young man beaten to death by a stranger who was known to mental health services say they are still locked in a “nightmare” three years on from the horror slaying.
Tragic James ‘Jimmy’ Loughlin, 20, never had any contact with Richard McLaughlin before he broke through his front door and attacked him with a crowbar while having a psychotic episode.
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McLaughlin forced his way into his victim’s house on Connolly Street in Sligo town at 1.18pm on February 24, 2018Credit: philipmulliganphotography.com - The Sun Dublin commission
McLaughlin, 34, was committed to Dublin’s Central Mental Hospital after being found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.