Dermot Griffin loses manslaughter conviction appeal

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Dermot Griffin lost his appeal against his manslaughter conviction at the Court of Appeal. The proceedings were reported on 23 March 2018.

Griffin was convicted by a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in 2014 of the manslaughter of 12-year-old Stephen Hughes, who died in a fire at a makeshift den on Rossfield Avenue, Tallaght, in September 2001. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Griffin appealed on a number of grounds, including fresh evidence relating to comments another man made to gardaí in January 2016. The Court of Appeal dismissed the conviction appeal in its entirety. Griffin was still appealing the severity of his sentence when the proceedings were reported.