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12/04/2006
Rapist receives life sentence for murder of Attracta Harron
The jury in the case of murdered Strabane woman Attracta Harron have today found a 23-year-old, County Tyrone man guilty of her murder.
Trevor William Hamilton, from Concess Road in Sion Mills appeared at Dungannon Crown Court, accused of killing the mother of five and concealing her body in a makeshift grave near his home.
Members of Mrs Harron's family, including her husband were in court today to hear the verdict.
Mr Justice McLaughlin said that he was sentencing Hamilton to life and warned him that the tariff when imposed would be heavy.
Hamilton showed no emotion as his sentence was handed down.
During the trial it emerged that Hamilton had been released from prison just four months before he killed mother-of-five Attracta Harron.
He had been released after serving just three-and-a-half years of a seven-year sentence for the rape of a 29-year old woman in February 2000.
Yesterday, the jury retired after a 28-day trial involving more than 200 witnesses, and briefly resumed their deliberations this morning before announcing their final decision.
Former librarian Attracta Harron disappeared on December 11 2003, while walking home from Mass in Lifford, County Donegal. Her body was found four months later. She had been battered to death.
(EF/SP)
Trevor William Hamilton, from Concess Road in Sion Mills appeared at Dungannon Crown Court, accused of killing the mother of five and concealing her body in a makeshift grave near his home.
Members of Mrs Harron's family, including her husband were in court today to hear the verdict.
Mr Justice McLaughlin said that he was sentencing Hamilton to life and warned him that the tariff when imposed would be heavy.
Hamilton showed no emotion as his sentence was handed down.
During the trial it emerged that Hamilton had been released from prison just four months before he killed mother-of-five Attracta Harron.
He had been released after serving just three-and-a-half years of a seven-year sentence for the rape of a 29-year old woman in February 2000.
Yesterday, the jury retired after a 28-day trial involving more than 200 witnesses, and briefly resumed their deliberations this morning before announcing their final decision.
Former librarian Attracta Harron disappeared on December 11 2003, while walking home from Mass in Lifford, County Donegal. Her body was found four months later. She had been battered to death.
(EF/SP)
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