Conor Dolan jailed for life for murdering Neil Fitzgerald

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Conor Dolan was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering Neil Fitzgerald at the Central Criminal Court on 2 November 2023. Fitzgerald was killed at Hills Lane, Crooksling, on 5 June 2016.

Dolan pleaded guilty in July 2023, changing his original not-guilty plea. The life sentence was mandatory; the court backdated it to 15 May 2020, when Dolan was arrested on his extradition from the UK.