Dean Evans jailed for life for Peter Butterly murder

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Dean Evans was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering Peter Butterly at the Special Criminal Court, reported on 31 July 2018.

Evans admitted being the gunman who shot Butterly outside The Huntsman Inn in Gormanston, County Meath, on 6 March 2013. He had been extradited from Spain after fleeing before a second trial.

He apologised in court and said decisions made five years earlier were ones he would not make today or in the future. The sentence was the mandatory term of life imprisonment.