Dylan Hayes and Gerard Hogan fail to overturn murder convictions

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Dylan Hayes and Gerard Hogan failed to overturn their murder convictions when the Court of Appeal dismissed their appeals on 9 November 2020.

The convictions concerned the murder of Shane Murphy at a house party in Pallasgreen, Co Limerick, on 30 April 2015.

The three-judge court rejected Hayes’s challenge to the trial judge’s directions on provocation, finding the charge adequate when viewed as a whole.

It also rejected Hogan’s grounds concerning his alleged role in the attack and whether the jury should have been directed on withdrawal from a joint enterprise.

Both men had received mandatory life sentences from the Central Criminal Court in May 2017, according to the report.