John Tighe to remain in prison for murdering infant son after appeal is rejected

John Tighe of Lavallyroe, Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, will serve the remainder of his mandatory life sentence after the Court of Appeal rejected his challenge to his conviction for murdering his infant son. In March 2018, a jury unanimously found Tighe guilty of the murder of six-and-a-half-month-old Joshua in June 2013. The child died from asphyxiation caused by a wad of tissue that became lodged in his airway…