Brian McHugh sentenced to life for Lisa Thompson’s murder

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Brian McHugh was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering Lisa Thompson at the Central Criminal Court on 10 March 2025. Thompson was killed at her home in Sandyhill Gardens, Ballymun, on 9 May 2022.

The sentence followed a jury’s unanimous guilty verdict on 27 February 2025. McHugh had pleaded not guilty; the jury found him guilty after just over three hours of deliberations.