Dylan Hayes and Gerard Hogan fail murder appeal

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Dylan Hayes and Gerard Hogan failed in their murder appeal at the Court of Appeal on 9 November 2020.

They were convicted of murdering Shane Murphy at a house party in Pallasgreen, Limerick, on 30 April 2015.

The three-judge court rejected challenges concerning provocation directions, joint enterprise and whether Hogan could withdraw from the alleged common design.

Both men received mandatory life sentences at the Central Criminal Court in May 2017.