Youth jailed over bottle killing

A youth who killed a mother-of-three when he hurled a bottle into a
crowded pub has been jailed for four-and-a-half years for manslaughter.

Neil
McNulty, 19, from Heywood, Greater Manchester, was refused entry by
door staff at the Queen Anne Hotel in the town and in temper threw the
bottle through the door.

A doorman ducked and
the bottle shattered on impact, sending a shard of glass flying into
the neck of 27-year-old Emma O'Kane, severing her jugular vein and an
artery.

Ms O'Kane was off duty at the time of
the incident at about 2am on December 27 2007 as she celebrated the
birthday of her partner, Michael Shepherd, 38, who she planned to marry.

He battled to save her as she lay bleeding to death.

Judge Michael Henshell told McNulty he would live with the pain of what he did for the rest of his life.

How terribly sad.