Trevor Corr jailed for murder at Central Criminal Court

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Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy sentenced Trevor Corr to life imprisonment for murdering James Humphries at the Central Criminal Court on 21 December 2015. The murder occurred at Kiltalown Way in Tallaght on 22 September 2013.

Trevor Corr had pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter. The State did not accept the manslaughter plea. A Central Criminal Court jury found Trevor Corr guilty of murder by unanimous verdict after deliberating for two hours and forty minutes. The proceedings were reported on 21 December 2015.

The judge backdated the life sentence to 1 August 2015. The court heard Trevor Corr was on bail at the time of sentencing and had spent just over four and a half months in custody before being granted bail.