Dylan Hayes loses appeal against murder conviction

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Dylan Hayes’s appeal against his murder conviction was dismissed by the Court of Appeal on 9 November 2020. He had been convicted after a three-week Central Criminal Court trial concerning Shane Murphy’s murder at a house in Pallasgreen, County Limerick, on 30 April 2015. The appeal court rejected the grounds advanced by Hayes and held that the trial was not unsatisfactory and the verdict was not unsafe. The judgment records that Hayes and Gerard Hogan were convicted on 17 May 2017.