{"id":301399,"date":"2026-02-16T20:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301399\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:36:10","slug":"two-jailed-for-disposal-of-dismembered-remains-of-teenager-keane-mulready-woods-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301399\/","title":{"rendered":"Two jailed for disposal of dismembered remains of teenager Keane Mulready-Woods \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two criminals who showed \u201cabhorrent inhumanity and disrespect\u201d by helping dispose of the dismembered remains of murdered teenager Keane Mulready-Woods<\/a> have each been sentenced to six years in prison by the Special Criminal Court.<\/p>\n

One of the offenders \u2013 Stephen Carberry \u2013 had his sentence reduced as, because he was on bail when he moved the body parts, his prison terms must run consecutively and Judge Karen O\u2019Connor said she is required to consider the total impact of the combined sentences.<\/p>\n

In July 2023, Carberry was jailed for eight years after he was found guilty of being a \u201ctrusted cog\u201d in a \u20ac1.5 million cocaine and ecstasy operation.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Connor, presiding at the three-judge court, on Monday said it would be difficult to envisage a more egregious way to interfere in the investigation of a murder than that committed by Carberry (48) and Glen Bride (32).<\/p>\n

At a previous hearing, Det Sgt Enda O\u2019Sullivan told prosecutor John Byrne garda\u00ed are satisfied that Keane was murdered by Robbie Lawlor, a notorious criminal linked to several violent deaths and who himself was shot dead in Belfast in April 2020.<\/p>\n

The court heard neither Carberry nor Bride had any involvement in or knowledge of the murder when it happened. However, both were involved in the transportation and disposal of Keane Mulready-Woods\u2019s remains afterwards, intending to impede Lawlor\u2019s apprehension or prosecution.<\/p>\n

Part of the background to the murder was an ongoing feud between criminal organisations in Drogheda and the 2019 murder of Richie Carberry, who was married to Robbie Lawlor\u2019s sister. <\/p>\n

Delivering sentence, O\u2019Connor said the inhumanity and disrespect were abhorrent, and the grief caused to the victim\u2019s family is immeasurable and permanent.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cTo lose a child is every parent\u2019s nightmare but what this family has suffered is beyond words.\u201d She said the child\u2019s parents had honoured their son with the dignity they have shown.<\/p>\n

In relation to Carberry, she said his offending was at the very top end and she set a headline of 10 years, the maximum penalty for the offence. However, the judge reduced that to seven years and six months after considering his guilty plea.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Treatment of teen\u2019s body after murder a \u2018constant and unbearable torment\u2019, says motherOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

\"StephenStephen Carberry. Photograph: Paddy Cummins <\/p>\n

She further reduced the sentence to six years after taking into account the fact that Carberry was on bail when he committed this offence and she is therefore required to impose a consecutive sentence. The court has heard that Carberry, who has 77 previous convictions, was due for release in 2028 having been sentenced in 2023 for the offence under section 15a of the Misuse of Drugs Act.<\/p>\n

The judge said she is required to impose a period of imprisonment consecutive to the one he is already serving, so she further reduced the term to take into account the principle that requires a judge to consider the total impact of sentencing.<\/p>\n

Bride, who has 86 previous convictions, is also currently serving a sentence with a release date in 2027. O\u2019Connor said he has more serious previous offending, including for violent offences, but played a lesser role than Carberry in the disposal of the body parts. She set a headline sentence of nine years for Bride, but having considered his guilty plea and expressions of remorse, she reduced that to six years, beginning from today\u2019s date.<\/p>\n

\"KeaneKeane Mulready-Woods was last seen alive in Drogheda on January 12th, 2020 <\/p>\n

Bride, formerly of Mount Olive Park, Kilbarrack, Dublin 5, previously pleaded guilty to assisting in the movement and disposal of the murdered teenager\u2019s body parts which had been stowed in the boot of a stolen Volvo V40 and left in a residential area in north Dublin.<\/p>\n

Carberry of Sandymount Avenue, Dublin 4, previously pleaded guilty to a charge that on a date between January 13th, 2020, and January 15th, 2020, both dates inclusive, within the State, knowing or believing another person to be guilty of the murder of Keane Mulready-Woods or some other arrestable offence, did without reasonable excuse, an act with intent to impede the apprehension or prosecution of that other person.<\/p>\n

Keane Mulready-Woods was last seen alive in Drogheda<\/a> on January 12th, 2020. The following day, some of the teenager\u2019s body parts were found in a sports bag in the Moatview area of Coolock in Dublin<\/a>. On January 15th, further remains were found in a burning car that Bride had moved to a laneway in Drumcondra. Members of Dublin Fire Brigade discovered the remains in a sports bag in the boot.<\/p>\n

The teen\u2019s torso was later discovered hidden in an overgrown ravine during a search of waste-ground at Rathmullan Park in Drogheda, near where the teenager was murdered.<\/p>\n

\"ElizabethElizabeth Mulready, mother of Keane Mulready-Woods. Photograph: Colins Courts <\/p>\n

In a victim impact statement written by Keane\u2019s mother Elizabeth and read at both Carberry\u2019s and Bride\u2019s sentencing hearings, she said nothing could ever prepare a parent for losing a child, but the way her son had been taken and what was done to him after his death had left a level of trauma that she will carry for the rest of her life.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Mulready said instead of being allowed dignity in death, her son\u2019s body was \u201ccut up, scattered and treated as if he was nothing\u201d.<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cAs if he was not someone\u2019s son. As if he did not matter. The cruelty and inhumanity of disposing of my child\u2019s body in pieces is something no parent should ever have to face.\u201d She said knowing that parts of her son were left in different places around the country was a \u201cconstant and unbearable torment\u201d.<\/p>\n

She said not a day goes by that she isn\u2019t \u201chaunted\u201d by images and thoughts of what was done to Keane.<\/p>\n

\u201cI relive it when I wake up, and it follows me when I try to sleep,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is not grief that fades with time. It is trauma that lives inside me.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said her family has been \u201cdestroyed\u201d by what happened and Keane\u2019s siblings lost their brother \u201cin the most brutal way imaginable\u201d.<\/p>\n

What hurts even more was that after her son was killed, \u201cchoices were made\u201d, to further \u201cdisrespect him and to further harm us\u201d, Elizabeth Mulready added.<\/p>\n

She said Keane deserved \u201cdignity\u201d and \u201crespect\u201d and deserved to be treated like \u201ca human being, not as something to be discarded\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI speak today for my son because he no longer has a voice,\u201d Elizabeth Mulready said, asking the court to consider the \u201clifelong impact\u201d this has had on her and her family and the \u201cunimaginable cruelty\u201d of what was done when deciding on a sentence.<\/p>\n

In his victim impact statement, which was also read to the court, Keane\u2019s father, Barry Woods, questioned why \u201cfully grown men with families of their own\u201d would \u201ctake a 17-year-old boy\u201d and dump his body parts as they did.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had to have his funeral with only half his body parts in his coffin. Horrible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Barry Woods said he was still \u201chaunted\u201d by this \u201csavage murder\u201d and still has nightmares about what happened.<\/p>\n

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