Billy Burns sentenced to life for murder of his mother

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Billy Burns was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Central Criminal Courts on 28 November 2025 for murdering his mother, Miriam Burns. He had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, but a jury unanimously found him guilty of murder earlier that week. His mother was 75 when she died at her home in Killarney, Co Kerry, in August 2022.