Unnamed 16-year-old convicted of Urantsetseg Tserendorj’s murder

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An unnamed 16-year-old boy was convicted of Urantsetseg Tserendorj’s murder at the Central Criminal Court on 11 November 2022. The jury returned a majority verdict at the retrial.

The boy had denied murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter, a plea the State did not accept. He was 14 at the time of the offence, which took place near the CHQ building in Dublin city centre on 20 January 2021.

The jury in the first trial had failed to agree a verdict. The report said the boy would be remanded in custody for sentence on 21 December 2022.