{"id":543586,"date":"2026-07-11T00:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/543586\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T00:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:28:16","slug":"boy-as-appeal-against-life-sentence-for-ana-kriegel-murder-to-be-heard-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/543586\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy A\u2019s appeal against life sentence for Ana Kriegel murder to be heard next year"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Court of Appeal has fixed a date in February next year to hear Boy A\u2019s appeal against his life sentence for the murder of schoolgirl Ana Kriegel in Dublin eight years ago.<\/p>\n

The appellant, who was one of two boys convicted of the teenager\u2019s murder, was in 2019 sentenced to life with a review after 12 years.<\/p>\n

Boy A was also sentenced to 12 years for an aggravated sexual assault on Ana, which runs alongside the murder sentence.<\/p>\n

Last November, Boy A\u2019s lawyers successfully applied for more time to bring an appeal against his life sentence, following a landmark Supreme Court decision.<\/p>\n

In a judgment delivered by Judge Iseult O\u2019Malley in March 2025, the Supreme Court found that life sentences for a child convicted of murder should only be imposed in exceptional cases where the evidence showed the intentions and actions of the child were akin to those of an adult.<\/p>\n

The ruling also said a sentencing court does not have jurisdiction to review terms of detention imposed on child offenders.<\/p>\n

In March, Niall Nolan, representing the appellant, told the court that records relating to the defendant\u2019s progress in custody would be \u201ccrucial\u201d to his appeal against his life sentence.<\/p>\n

He said the case would require \u201cdocument-heavy analysis\u201d, as he sought more time before a date for hearing was set.<\/p>\n

Nolan told the court the legal team was seeking a significant number of records \u201cin order to progress the appeal\u201d and asked for a mention date in July.<\/p>\n

He said the trial judge, Judge Paul McDermott, had made \u201ccertain directions on the production of reports along the way\u201d and that these reports were supposed to be prepared twice yearly.<\/p>\n

Nolan added that, unlike other cases, there was not a \u201cpressing need to get this on for hearing\u201d.<\/p>\n

He asked the court for more time to allow the youth\u2019s lawyers to assemble the appeal.<\/p>\n

The barrister also made an application for a documentary junior counsel for the appeal.<\/p>\n

Judge Kennedy granted the request, noting that a solicitor and two counsel have already been approved for the case.<\/p>\n

She adjourned the matter until Friday, July 10th, when it was expected that a hearing date would be fixed.<\/p>\n

When the case came back before the court on Friday, Patrick Gageby, representing the appellant with Nolan, said his team anticipated that this will be a \u201clengthy appeal\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said that, given the \u201chistory of the case\u201d, he was seeking a hearing date next spring.<\/p>\n

Gageny asked that a Probation Report, Psychology Report, and Governor\u2019s Report concerning the various places where his client has been detained be prepared, with a particular \u201clook backwards\u201d.<\/p>\n

Gageby said that because there are \u201cvoluminous records\u201d, it would be of assistance if a risk assessment and an education report were also provided.<\/p>\n

Counsel asked that the matter be listed \u201clate next term\u201d for mention.<\/p>\n

Judge Isobel Kennedy fixed February 4th, 2027, as the hearing date for the appeal.<\/p>\n

She directed that the relevant reports be produced and adjourned the matter to December 4th for case management.<\/p>\n

The two boys, referred to in the media as Boy A and Boy B, were both 13 years old when they murdered Ana Kriegel in an abandoned house at Laraghcon, Clonee Road, Lucan on May 14th, 2018.<\/p>\n

They were convicted by a Central Criminal Court jury in June 2019 of murdering Ana, with Boy A also convicted of Ana’s aggravated sexual assault in a manner that involved serious violence.<\/p>\n

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\"Accused<\/p>\n

Ireland<\/p>\n

Accused people unrepresented in District Court due to legal aid dispute challenge legality of detention<\/p>\n

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The jury accepted the prosecution’s case that Boy B lured Ana to the house by telling her that Boy A wanted to meet her, knowing that Boy A intended to kill her.<\/p>\n

He watched as Boy A, who was dressed all in black and wearing a ghoulish mask, shin guards and knee pads, sexually assaulted Ana having dragged her to the ground, where he beat her repeatedly with a piece of wood and a large block.<\/p>\n

Boy B previously lodged an appeal against his conviction but withdrew it on the morning of his hearing in October 2022.<\/p>\n

The Court of Appeal was told on that occasion that there was no appeal against Boy B’s sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Court of Appeal has fixed a date in February next year to hear Boy A\u2019s appeal against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-543586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543586","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=543586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}