"Unacceptable" that dangerous mentally ill man lived "just doors down", victim's parents tell court

A 32-year-old Sligo man has been found not guilty by reason of insanity for the fatal assault on his neighbour in February 2018. Richard McLaughlin, of The Laurels, Woodtown Lodge, broke into the home of Jimmy James Loughlin on Connolly Street and attacked him with a crowbar, causing traumatic head injuries that proved fatal. The Central Criminal Court heard evidence that McLaughlin was experiencing delusions…