Jason O’Driscoll sentenced to life for double murder

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Jason O’Driscoll was sentenced to life for murdering Anthony Burnett and Joseph Redmond at the Central Criminal Court on 2 October 2018. The two men were killed in Co Louth in 2012, after going there to sell a stolen car, according to the report.

The jury convicted O’Driscoll on circumstantial evidence after a trial, and the judge imposed the mandatory life sentence on each count. The sentence was backdated to June 2016, when he was taken into custody.

During the sentencing hearing, O’Driscoll maintained that he was innocent and said the jury had got it wrong.