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\nHolt’s four-year-old son Tadgh Farrell and the boy’s grand-aunt Mary Holt were killed when the house at Castleview Park in Edenderry was firebombed on 6 December last year<\/p>\n
A 28-year-old man whose son was killed in a petrol bomb attack in Co Offaly last December has been given a further prison sentence.<\/p>\n
In January Aaron Holt, of Castleview Park, Edenderry, was jailed for seven years over a seizure of more than \u20ac32,000 worth of heroin near his home in Edenderry in 2024.<\/p>\n
Mr Holt appeared before Tullamore District Court where he pleaded guilty to a separate charge relating to possessing drugs for sale or supply in 2025.<\/p>\n
Detective Garda Joseph Bradley told the court that on 27 March 2025 he saw Holt in a cul-de-sac lane opposite his house.<\/p>\n
Detective Garda Bradley said he was suspicious and later went and searched the area where he found a lunchbox containing 49g of cocaine.<\/p>\n
The detective said he viewed CCTV which showed Holt at the scene and later generated a DNA profile from the lunchbox which matched a swab taken from the accused.<\/p>\n
\nHolt’s four-year-old son Tadgh Farrell and the boy’s grand-aunt Mary Holt were killed when the house at Castleview Park in Edenderry was firebombed on 6 December last year<\/p>\n
The court heard Holt had a total of 62 previous convictions, 14 of which were for drug offences, the most serious offence was possession of heroin worth over \u20ac32,000 in Edenderry in May 2024.<\/p>\n
He was jailed for seven years.<\/p>\n
The court heard how he was not due for release until December 2030.<\/p>\n
Defending solicitor Aisling Maloney asked that the sentence imposed for this latest offence run concurrently with terms he is already serving.<\/p>\n
She said Holt had three young children and had a life outside of prison, and she asked Judge Andrew Cody to consider not interfering with his existing release date.<\/p>\n
She told Judge Cody that Mr Holt is doing well in prison.<\/p>\n
She also told the judge that he might be aware that Mr Holt suffered a great tragedy through the loss of his son and aunt after being imprisoned and was refused leave to attend his son’s funeral.<\/p>\n
She told the judge that Holt had pleaded guilty at the first available opportunity and had dealt with the prosecution in a very honest and forthright manner.<\/p>\n
After Detective Garda Bradley confirmed Holt was out on bail from the High Court for the heroin possession crime at the time of the offence now before the court.<\/p>\n
Judge Cody said he was obliged to impose a custodial sentence and it had to be consecutive.<\/p>\n
He said taking all matters into account, including an early guilty plea, he was imposing an eight-month sentence which will begin at the end of the sentence imposed in January.<\/p>\n
Holt’s four-year-old son Tadgh Farrell and the boy’s grand-aunt Mary Holt were killed when the house at Castleview Park in Edenderry was firebombed on 6 December last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 28-year-old man whose son was killed in a petrol bomb attack in Co Offaly last December has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-662258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}