{"id":410848,"date":"2026-04-21T23:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410848\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:55:12","slug":"youth-who-killed-his-friend-sold-heroin-in-custody-and-assaulted-prison-officer-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410848\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth who killed his friend, sold heroin in custody and assaulted prison officer, court hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The CCJ in Dublin.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/96d789c4-cfdb-472d-8592-d26f80b58ac4.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)\">The CCJ in Dublin.<\/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 youth who was 16 when he murdered his friend &#8211; who he claimed had labelled him a &#8220;rat&#8221; &#8211; should not be sentenced to life in prison, a court has been told.<\/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 Court of Appeal also heard today that since moving to an adult prison the appellant, who admitted to the murder of Glen \u201cOssie\u201d Osborne (20), has since assaulted a female prison officer and sold heroin to fellow inmates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CCJ in Dublin. A youth who was 16 when he murdered his friend &#8211; who he claimed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":["post-410848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410848","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=410848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}