NANCY KERRIGAN'S BROTHER JAILED IN DAD'S DEATH

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OLYMPIC figure skater Nancy Kerrigan's brother was sentenced to the maximum two-and-a-half year jail term for the assault that led to the death of their 70-year-old father. 
Mark Kerrigan put his hands around Daniel Kerrigan's neck with such force that he broke cartilage in his father's larynx and triggered his heart failure after the pair fought in their Woburn, MA home. 
He was acquitted of manslaughter but convicted of assault in his father's 2010 death. Tearfully, Nancy Kerrigan pleaded with the judge not to send him to jail, telling the him that her large family supported
her brother and calling his prosecution in the death of their father "a long and trying experience."
She said: "Any sentence for Mark would only serve to extend an unnecessary situation that already seems as if it has been never-ending.
"We ask that you please send him home with us today so that he can rejoin our family." 
 But the judge imposed the maximum penalty citing his lengthy criminal record and alcohol problem.