{"id":221086,"date":"2018-10-26T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=221086"},"modified":"2018-12-17T12:31:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T02:31:21","slug":"nine-years-jail-for-manslaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/10\/26\/nine-years-jail-for-manslaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Years Jail For Manslaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>October 26, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Nanango man who admitted to accidentally killing his housemate has been sentenced to nine years&#8217; jail.<\/p>\n<p>William\u00a0Arthur Feeney, 57, appeared for sentencing in the Brisbane Supreme Court on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Feeney had earlier pleaded not guilty to murdering\u00a0Bruce Flynn, 60, who was found unconscious at his home in Old Esk Road, Nanango, on September 11, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Flynn was taken to Kingaroy Hospital where he died a short time later.<\/p>\n<p>Midway through his trial, Feeney changed his plea to guilty to manslaughter, which the Crown accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Ann Lyons sentenced Feeney to nine years imprisonment, and declared he had already served 717 days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/10\/24\/feeney-admits-manslaughter\/\">Feeney Admits Manslaughter<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/10\/15\/murder-accused-pleads-not-guilty\/\">Murder Accused Pleads Not Guilty<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nanango man who admitted to accidentally killing his housemate has been sentenced to nine years&#8217; jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":104807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24],"tags":[1132],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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