Michael Kinsella pleads guilty to manslaughter in Dublin

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Michael Kinsella pleaded guilty to manslaughter at the Central Criminal Court on 10 December 2015.

Adil Essalhi was killed in Tyrrellstown, west Dublin, on 6 January 2011.

Kinsella had pleaded not guilty to murder, but admitted unlawfully killing Mr Essalhi after a five-day trial.

The State prosecution told the court that the DPP would accept the manslaughter plea only on condition that Kinsella agreed he had assaulted Mr Essalhi with a weapon.

Mr Essalhi suffered more than 50 stab and chop wounds before his body was burned and left in a ditch.

Ms Justice Deirdre Murphy said Kinsella would be sentenced “in due course.”