Dean Evans pleads guilty to Peter Butterly murder

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Dean Evans pleaded guilty to murdering Peter Butterly at the Special Criminal Court, as reported on 20 July 2018.

The court remanded Evans in custody until a hearing on 31 July, when he was due to receive the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment. Butterly was shot outside The Huntsman Inn in Gormanstown, County Meath, on 6 March 2013. Evans had been arrested in Spain after failing to appear for trial in Dublin.