A man has been given a 12-year sentence for a robbery in which a woman (46) was murdered.
Thomas Penkert (21) was acquitted of the murder of Ms Nora Kiely (46) at Leitrim Street, Cork City, on July 25th, 2002, last February.
In sentencing today, Mr Justice Diarmuid O'Donovan said he must take account of the circumstances of the robbery in which €20 was taken.
"You totally and utterly terrorised the lady . . . and watched her being brutally murdered", Mr Justice O'Donovan told the defendant.
Mr Penkert's co-accused, Mr Brian Walsh, was sentenced to life for Ms Kiely's murder in February.
Ms Kiely was strangled to death with electric cable and later stabbed in a botched attempt to make the murder look like a suicide, the trial heard.
State Pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy said the forensic evidence was "highly suggestive" of an attempted sexual assault.