{"id":144774,"date":"2025-11-17T15:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/144774\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:48:09","slug":"two-men-sentenced-to-life-for-brutal-murder-of-amazing-brother-and-super-son-who-was-beaten-to-death-on-dublin-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/144774\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men sentenced to life for \u2018brutal\u2019 murder of \u2018amazing brother and super son\u2019 who was beaten to death on Dublin street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Mark Lee (44), a then unemployed man, had earlier that day posted on social media: &#8220;I&#8217;m not homophobic myself, but I am racist and I&#8217;m not afraid to say it. The Government made me like that.&#8221;Unlike the two men who murdered Josip Strok, the deceased and his friend were working, the judge said, and offered more to Irish society\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mark Lee and Anthony Delappe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/96bf867a-50e5-499d-a2c8-4d56ae036f1a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Mark Lee and Anthony Delappe<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Two men have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the &#8220;brutal&#8221; murder of a &#8220;good friend, amazing brother and super son&#8221; who was taking his last step towards fulfilling his life when he was beaten to death on a Dublin street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Passing sentence today, Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring said that one of the defendants, Mark Lee (44), murdered Josip Strok (31) while acting on weak hearsay evidence from two youths that the deceased and his friend, David Druzinec (29), had assaulted a child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Lee (44), a then unemployed man, had earlier that day posted on social media: &#8220;I&#8217;m not homophobic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-144774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}