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A Leitrim mother has said that she felt as if she had been “hit against a wall” after learning that the young man convicted of her son’s murder is being wanted by police in Australia in connection with two serious assaults.
Warrants have been issued for Patrick Farrell’s arrest, following a recent stabbing in Sydney in which a 30-year-old man’s ear was nearly cut off, while New South Wales police also want to question him about an assault by a only blow when they took him to a hospitalized 56-year-old man.
Joe and Rosie Dolan, parents of Andrew Dolan, who died following an unprovoked assault on Christmas Eve 2011, say they are distraught and angered by media reports that a man jailed after the death of their son now he’s on the run in Australia.
“Our first reaction was that we just didn’t want to know,” Joe Dolan said. “And then on reflection, we get angry because nothing was learned. He said the news “mocked” his wife’s campaign against random street attacks and her pleas for young people not to jeopardize their opportunities to travel and work by attacking.
In July 2013, Patrick Farrell (21) of Cornamuckla, Broadford, Co Kildare, was imprisoned for three and a half years for the murder of Andrew Dolan, a 20-year-old biomedical sciences student at NUI Galway. Two other youths were convicted of assaulting Carrick’s student in Shannon.
His parents have been disturbed by reports that Australian police are searching for the man who inflicted the fatal blow during the unprovoked street assault.
“I am angry that no lessons have been learned and that sadly now other people have suffered catastrophic injuries. It shouldn’t have happened, ”Mr. Dolan said.
Rosie Dolan said she had always imagined that after 10 years she would hear from the young man responsible for the coup that killed her son.
“I had this image that when the 10th anniversary comes around, it’s actually nine years old, they would touch my shoulder and I would have this crying kid, the same age as Andrew, he was 20 when he hit and Andrew was 20 years old.
“I was hoping to see this guy crying and wanting to apologize, and they took that from me.”
Andrew Dolan’s parents, Joe and Rosie, photographed in 2014 next to their grave at Ardcarne Cemetery, Co Roscommon. Photography: Brian Farrell
Ms Dolan, who has supported the Garda campaign “Use your Brain not your Fists”, said she did not know if she would have forgiven her son’s abuser “but hoped he would have come to me for forgiveness and I thought it would be an important finishing off what we have experienced ”.
She said reports that the man had been one of a group of Irish men involved in a stabbing in a Sydney suburb in late August made her feel as if she had been “picked up and slammed against the wall.” It was “a hundred times worse” to think that the attack on her son was not an unusual act.
“I liked to think that it was someone who went too far that night, someone who had never done that before and would never do it again. That made it a little easier to accept. “
NSW Police have asked for the public’s help in locating Patrick Farrell (29), who they say is wanted on two outstanding warrants for stabbing in Sydney’s Randwick area last month and an assault in Matraville in November last year.
“Detectives from the Eastern Beaches Police Area Command have conducted extensive investigations into his whereabouts but have been unable to locate him,” according to NSW’s appeal on Facebook.
According to media reports in Australia, Farrell was one of the people involved in a stabbing in Randwick on August 29 in which a man’s ear was nearly cut off. An Irish couple have been charged in connection with the incident.
New South Wales police also want to question Farrell about a one-hit assault on a 56-year-old man at a Matraville hotel beer garden in November last year.
The Australian Department of Home Affairs said it could not comment on individual cases due to privacy legislation. In general, he said, the visa would be canceled for non-citizens who pose a significant risk to public safety.
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