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The Prison Service has said a 51-year-old prisoner convicted of manslaughter has failed to turn up after home leave. | The Prison Service has said a 51-year-old prisoner convicted of manslaughter has failed to turn up after home leave. |
Daniel Martin Peter Hargan was one of three people involved in the death of Edward Kelly in Bangor in June 2006. | |
Mr Kelly, who was 58, was found at a house in Central Avenue in the town. He had been beaten round the head with a "rod-like" weapon and had also been kicked. | |
Hargan was due to be released from Maghaberry prison in May. | |
He pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Mr Kelly having originally been charged with his murder. | |
In 2008 he was sentenced to seven years in jail with one year's probation. | |
His co-accused were a woman called Tammy McDowell, who has since died and Polish national Jerzy Zalewski who is on the run from the police. | |
All were heavy drinkers and Hargan was described at his sentencing as an alcoholic "on the borderline of mental handicap." | |
The three had attacked Mr Kelly in his bed before going back downstairs where they drank alcohol and then left a short time later. | |
No effort was made to summon medical assistance until the landlady found Mr Kelly on returning home from work and raised the alarm. | |
The only motive suggested for the killing was that Hargan claimed Mr Kelly had owed him £20. | |
The judge described the killing as "a dreadful crime that has removed from his family a father and grandfather who, whatever his own problems, held an important place in their lives." |