Ireland Crime

Sentencing hearing at the Special Criminal Court before Mr Justice Kerida Naidoo; first sentences handed down after the Supreme Court ruling that life is not mandatory for child murderers.

Sentencing at the Special Criminal Court; first defendants sentenced after the Supreme Court ruling that a life sentence is not mandatory for child murderers. The High Court had previously found the mandatory life imprisonment law unconstitutional before trial.

Reports the May 2025 sentencing of the two teenagers convicted of murder at the Special Criminal Court in February 2025. It adds their sentences, the sentences of the other men convicted, the judge's remarks, the probation findings and the family's victim impact statements.

Reports the April 2025 life sentence for Michael Andrecut and the sentences for Juares Kumbu. Sentencing of the other five convicted men was adjourned until May. No existing case matches this sentencing event.

Inquest hearing at Dublin District Coroner's Court; DI Donoghue confirms no direct arrests yet but does not rule them out; inquest adjourned to 13 January 2026; details of Tristan Sherry's death and his murder trial convictions provided; widow Veronica Maher's separate charges mentioned.

Reports the verdicts: three men found guilty of murdering Tristan Sherry and three convicted of violent disorder offences, with all six remanded for sentencing on 7 April.

Special Criminal Court verdicts: three men convicted of murder and three of violent disorder, with a seventh man, Juares Kumbu, pleading guilty. All six convicted men were remanded in custody for sentencing on 7 April. Jason Hennessy senior is named as the man who died after being shot.

Adds details of the Special Criminal Court trial in progress: Andrecut's garda interviews, Det Sgt Mark Murphy's evidence about his arrest, the weapons the prosecution alleges were used, the inference-from-silence procedure, the defence challenge to admitting the interviews, the trial judges, and the charges against Brandon Hennessy, Jonas Kabangu and Diarmuid O'Brien for violent disorder.

Reports the State Pathologist's evidence on Sherry's wounds and cause of death at the Special Criminal Court trial, the charges against the three murder accused and three violent disorder accused, and the not guilty pleas.

Only the headline is available; the article body is an unfilled template. The headline matches the Tristan Sherry killing case, but the article date (2024-11-12) is not confirmed by the body text. The incident date is not stated in the supplied article text.

Adds the Garda witness's detailed CCTV account of the attack on Sherry, the alleged actions of the accused, and the charges against Jonas Kabangu, Diarmuid O'Brien and Brandon Hennessy. Says the trial is ongoing and all accused pleaded not guilty.

Only the headline is available; the article text is template code with no body. Several existing cases cover the same killing, and the headline gives no names, dates or stage to match one of them, so no case is linked.

Only the headline is available. It says Tristan Sherry was kicked and stamped during a 'savage' Dublin steakhouse assault, as heard in court. It does not name the accused or give a date, and the case_id match is uncertain because several existing cases concern the same incident.

Six defendants entered not guilty pleas in the Special Criminal Court. The prosecution's case against each man, the admissions made on their behalf, the expected evidence and the expected trial length are reported.

Adds that Kabangu was arrested for bail breaches (failing to sign on, curfew and no-contact breaches) and remanded in custody on 17 September 2024, pending bail revocation proceedings; the case is before the Special Criminal Court.

Inquest opening reports the post-mortem cause of death and that the coroner adjourned pending criminal proceedings. It names four accused charged with murder, plus others charged with related offences, and says all accused will be tried before the Special Criminal Court.

Reports that the two accused have brought High Court judicial review proceedings against the DPP, Ireland and the Attorney General, seeking declarations that the 2001 Children's Act breaches their constitutional and ECHR rights, and orders preventing their trials until sentencing laws are amended. Mr Justice Garrett Simons granted permission to bring the actions on an ex parte basis.

Covers the Special Criminal Court transfer of seven accused in the Tristan Sherry killing, with the accused named and charges listed. No existing case in the list matches this incident.

Reports that the seven accused have had their cases transferred to the Special Criminal Court under Section 49(1) of the Offences Against the State Act, with the charges and accused's addresses given, and that the matters are adjourned to 1 July.

Reports that seven accused, including four charged with murder, were sent for trial to the Special Criminal Court on the State's application, with matters adjourned to 1 July. Gives the charges against individual accused and the court's reasons for the transfer.

Reports that two more men, David Amah and Michael Andrecut, face murder charges and Juares Kumbu a firearms offence, were sent for trial to the Special Criminal Court; the article also notes that two other men were transferred the previous week.

Noah Musueni, now 18, was sent forward for trial to the Special Criminal Court under section 46.2 of the Offences Against the State Act. This was the first murder case from the investigation to reach this stage. The judge refused a defence request for continued anonymity, and granted legal aid including senior counsel representation.

Reports that the DPP directed Deegan to be charged with murder, that his earlier charges were withdrawn, and that he was remanded in custody to appear again the following Thursday. No existing case in the list covers Deegan's murder charge.

Reports the High Court bail refusal for Amah and Andrecut, the murder charges against them, a 17-year-old boy charged with the murder, the charges against Wayne Deegan, and the CCTV evidence described at the hearing.

Only the headline is available; the article text is template code with no body. It reports a second arrest over the killing of Tristan Sherry. No existing case clearly matches this early arrest, so case_id is left null.