The short life and tragic death of Mason O’Connell-Conway
Family of four-year-old whose stepmother was given a life sentence for his murder tell their story‘They were standing at the end of the coffin, looking in. I knew they’d done it’ ‘Those cries are forever burnt into our memory, his little face and what he was actually trying to tell us’
Tragic Mason O'Connell-Conway: a life in picturesWhen Breda Coffey held the wake for her four-year-old grandson, she had her suspicions that his father and stepmother had been lying about how he died. Mason O’Connell-Conway, they claimed, fell from a bunk bed.But having previously seen scratches on his body, Ms Coffey feared the worst — that her dear boy had been murdered.
