Two men sentenced to life for murdering Mahamud Ilyas

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Viorel Doroscan and Otniel Richardo Clejan have been sentenced to life in prison for murdering 22-year-old Mahamud Ilyas. The Central Criminal Court imposed the mandatory sentences after a jury convicted them of murder earlier this year.

The trial heard that the pair beat Ilyas with a hammer, kicked and stamped on him, then left him in a wooded area in Co Meath. They had argued he attacked them and that they acted in self-defence; the jury found them guilty.