Hishmeh mistakenly believed her younger sister had been injured by members of the group at an earlier brawl outside a nearby McDonald’s.
She was initially charged with murder,but a jury found her guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter. She was also convicted of three grievous bodily harm offences and a bodily harm offence,and sentenced to 8½ years in prison.
After serving 6½ years,Hishmeh will be eligible for parole in early May,causing Cummins’ mother to launch a petition to keep her behind bars for the duration of her sentence.
“I strongly believe she should have to serve her full sentence until 2026 as she has been in a minimum security pre-release centre since 2021,” Aisling Earls wrote on the online petition she called “Justice for Jacob”.
“This centre is absolutely nothing like the prison sentence I was led to believe she would be serving. She is not held in a cell but a five-bedroom house that isn’t even locked at night. A centre that offers a standard of living that is better than many on the outside with no criminal convictions.”
The Department of Justice cannot confirm where Hishmeh is serving her sentence.