Criostoir MacCarthaigh sentenced to life for fatal stabbing

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Criostoir MacCarthaigh was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court after a jury returned a unanimous verdict over David Whyte’s fatal stabbing.

MacCarthaigh had pleaded not guilty to stabbing Mr Whyte more than 100 times between 24 and 26 September 2008.

The prosecution case was that MacCarthaigh encountered Mr Whyte on Ulster Street before attacking him and driving him to Mill Lane, Palmerstown, where the stabbing occurred.

The proceedings were reported on 20 December 2013.