Murderer 'driven by hostility to homosexuality'

2023-10-23 22:28

Yousef Palani has admitted murdering two men in Sligo and says he heard voices telling him to do it.

A 23-year-old man who murdered two men in Sligo town last year was driven by a hostility towards homosexuality, a sentencing hearing has heard.

However, Yousef Palani, with an address at Markievicz Heights in Sligo, denied this was the case.

He pleaded guilty in July to the murder of Aidan...