Gerard Cervi jailed for Bobby Messett murder at Bray Boxing Club

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Gerard Cervi was sentenced to life imprisonment for Bobby Messett’s murder at the Central Criminal Court on 1 December 2023. The shooting took place at Bray Boxing Club in June 2018.

Cervi had been convicted by a unanimous jury verdict a week earlier. The jury found him guilty of murdering Messett and acquitted him of attempting to murder Pete Taylor and Ian Britton.

The judge imposed the mandatory life sentence. The court heard that no definitive motive for the murder had been established.