{"id":368584,"date":"2026-03-27T19:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/368584\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:46:09","slug":"i-hope-you-see-my-sons-face-every-time-you-close-your-eyes-i-hope-you-rot-in-hell-mother-of-steven-ring-as-man-sentenced-for-his-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/368584\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I hope you see my son\u2019s face every time you close your eyes. I hope you rot in hell\u2019 \u2013 mother of Steven Ring as man sentenced for his murder"},"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\">Victim Steven Ring (27) was tied up, choked and dumped in quarryHis body lay undiscovered for weeksChristopher Judge (42) sentenced to life in prison\u2018I can\u2019t stop thinking about how afraid he must have been and if he called out for me\u2019 \u2013 mum Linda Ring\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Steven Ring\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7ef79bd0-695c-4ff8-937e-e5fff53ec759.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)\">Steven Ring<\/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)\">A 42-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Steven Ring, who was tied up, choked and dumped in a Wexford quarry where his body lay undiscovered for almost two weeks.<\/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)\">The Central Criminal Court heard today that murderer Christopher Judge had also stolen Mr Ring\u2019s new mobile phone and, while a missing-persons search was under way, had messaged people offering an \u201cunlocked, brand-new iPhone for sale\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victim Steven Ring (27) was tied up, choked and dumped in quarryHis body lay undiscovered for weeksChristopher Judge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-368584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368584","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=368584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}