Ireland Crime

Named as

Victim

Born

Between May 2007 and May 2008, from the ages reported

Offences

Murder

Where

Co. Dublin, Co. Meath

Reporting

6 reports, 19 Jul 2021 to 27 May 2025

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extra.ie, irishtimes.com, Courts Service judgment

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• Inquest hears Dublin teenager murdered in care could have been saved Murder · Co. Dublin

  Daniel McAnaspie, a 17-year-old orphan in the care of the HSE, was stabbed to death with garden shears at Tolka Valley Park, Blanchardstown, Dublin, on 26 February 2010. His badly decomposed body was found by a farmer in a drain in Rathfeigh, Co Meath, about two months later. Richard Dekker, a 35-year-old man from Blanchardstown, was convicted of murder by a unanimous jury at the Central Criminal Court in March 2017 after previously being acquitted in 2013, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Trevor Noone, a 29-year-old man from Blanchardstown, was sentenced to 13 years for manslaughter in 2017. The Court of Appeal dismissed Dekker's appeal in July 2022 and the Supreme Court refused leave to appeal in May 2023, and an inquest in May 2025 heard that McAnaspie could have been saved with secure care.

  In court, 19 Jul 2021Victim · 5 reports
• Inquest returns unlawful killing verdict in Daniel McAnaspie case Murder · Co. Meath

  Daniel McAnaspie, a 17-year-old boy, was murdered on 26 February 2010, and his badly decomposed remains were found in a drainage ditch in Co Meath by a farmer in May 2010. In 2017, two men were convicted in connection with his death, one of murder and the other of manslaughter. In May 2025, an inquest at Meath Coroner's Court returned a verdict of unlawful killing, and the six-person jury made 13 recommendations aimed at improving outcomes for the most at-risk children in care.

  No stage yetVictim · 1 report

Each entry shows how that report described them.

1. 27 May2025
   Otherextra.ie, in Inquest hears Dublin teenager murdered in care could have been saved

   Sister of murdered Daniel McAnaspie issues plea

   victim, Daniel McAnaspie, irish (judged from name)Daniel McAnaspieIE
2. 16 May2025
   Otheririshtimes.com, in Inquest returns unlawful killing verdict in Daniel McAnaspie case

   Daniel McAnaspie case: Crisis for at-risk children is worse than when teen was murdered in 2010, inquest hears

   victim, Daniel McAnaspie, 17, male, irish (judged from name)Daniel McAnaspie♂17IE
3. 13 May2025
   In courtirishtimes.com, in Inquest hears Dublin teenager murdered in care could have been saved

   Murdered teenager Daniel McAnaspie ‘could have been saved’ with secure care, inquest hears

   victim, Daniel McAnaspie, 17, male, irish (judged from name)Daniel McAnaspie♂17IE
4. 9 May2023
   In courtCourts Service judgment, in Inquest hears Dublin teenager murdered in care could have been saved

   [2023] IESCDET 56 Supreme Court: People(At The Suit Of The Director Of Public Prosecutions) -v- Richard Dekker

   victim, Daniel McAnaspie, irish (judged from name)Daniel McAnaspieIE
5. 27 Jul2022
   In courtirishtimes.com, in Inquest hears Dublin teenager murdered in care could have been saved

   Man loses appeal against his conviction for murdering 17-year-old Daniel McAnaspie

   victim, Daniel McAnaspie, 17, male, irish (judged from name)Daniel McAnaspie♂17IE
6. 19 Jul2021
   In courtirishtimes.com, in Inquest hears Dublin teenager murdered in care could have been saved

   Man appeals conviction for murder of Dublin teenager

   victim, Daniel McAnaspie, 17, male, irish (judged from name)Daniel McAnaspie♂17IE

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