Dylan Hayes and Ger Hogan sentenced to life for murder

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Dylan Hayes and Ger Hogan were sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment for murdering Shane Murphy. Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy imposed the sentences after the verdicts were revealed on 17 May 2017.

Murphy was murdered at a house in The Grove, Pallasgreen, County Limerick, on 30 April 2015.

Hayes was convicted unanimously, while Hogan was convicted by a 10-to-two majority after a 12-day trial.

According to Hayes’s statements to gardaí, he repeatedly stabbed Murphy. The prosecution case was that Hogan was involved in a joint enterprise with Hayes to murder Murphy.