Disney and Carlyle sentenced to life for Vincent Parsons murder

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Philip Disney and Sean Carlyle were sentenced to life imprisonment in January 2023 for murdering Vincent Parsons, a father of two who was beaten to death in Tallaght in 2019. They had denied the murder. A unanimous jury found them guilty at the Central Criminal Court in December 2022.

Mr Justice Kerida Naidoo said Mr Parsons had been subjected to a short, intensely violent assault that was not spontaneous. He said both men were composed and fully in control of their decisions, and that Mr Parsons offered no resistance and was left for dead.

This report covers an earlier stage of the case. Later developments are not reported here.