SECOND MAN TO FACE MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE OVER DEATH OF TYDAVNET TEENAGER

15 November 2013 No Comments by The Northern Standard

A second man is to face a manslaughter charge as the result of the death of a Co Monaghan teenager from injuries received after he was subjected to assaults in Co Tyrone on New Year’s Eve last.

Nineteen-year-old Jason McGovern, from Tydavnet, was found dead in the home of a friend in Emyvale on January 1 this year.

The evening before he had been socialising with friends in Omagh when he was reportedly the victim of two separate assaults, one at a pub in John Street around midnight, and the other incident occurring later outside a night club in the Kelvin Road area while he was waiting for a taxi.

Mr McGovern was a student at the Sligo Institute of Technology. The results …

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