Dean Fitzpatrick’s father has described how his “world came crashing down” after hearing that his son had been “brutally killed” by David Mahon.

The Central Criminal Court has heard a Dublin man who killed his stepson accepts the jury’s verdict and will not appeal his conviction.

The mother of Dean Fitzpatrick, who was killed in a stabbing incident involving his stepfather, Dave Mahon, today settled a €60,000 damages claim against Dublin City Council and Irish Water.

Tragedy is nothing new in the Fitzpatrick family, even as they absorb the news of the verdict handed down in the David Mahon case over the death of teenager Dean Fitzpatrick.

Measuring 5’ 6” and walking with a stick, David Mahon had told gardaí he “wasn’t built for prison”.

David Mahon’s counsel has told his trial jury that his client had no motive to kill his stepson, but every reason not to harm him, due to his love for Dean Fitzpatrick’s mother.

A jury has been told that what David Mahon did in the aftermath of his stepson receiving a fatal stab wound was “straight out of the How to Get Away with Murder handbook”.

The trial of a man charged with murdering his stepson has heard that the deceased had a death wish due to feelings of guilt about his missing sister, Amy Fitzpatrick.

The friend of a man accused of “gutting“ his stepson has said events on the night in question “went from zero to a hundred in a short space of time”.

Latest: David Mahon’s trial has heard there were photos of his missing stepdaughter on the floor of his apartment on the night he is accused of murdering her brother.

A man has gone on trial, charged with murdering his stepson by “gutting” him after the deceased had interfered with his bicycle to annoy him.

A former estate agent charged with the murder of his partner’s son is to be served with a book of evidence in five weeks.

A man accused of the murder of his partner’s son, Dean Fitzpatrick, who died following a stabbing last year, has been let out on €15,000 bail.

A 43-year-old man made no reply when he was charged with the murder of his partner Audrey Fitzpatrick’s son, Dean, who died following a stabbing incident last year, a court has heard.

A man arrested over the death of the brother of a missing teenager Amy Fitzpatrick has been released without charge.

The family of missing teenager Amy Fitzpatrick has been engulfed in further trauma after Amy’s brother Dean was fatally stabbed outside his mother’s home.

The heartbroken mother of missing Amy Fitzpatrick has admitted she contemplated taking her own life.

The mother of missing teenager Amy Fitzpatrick is due to meet with the Taoiseach this afternoon.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern who met with the family of missing Irish teenager Amy Fitzpatrick in Dublin yesterday has promised a comprehensive review of the investigation into her disappearance.

The mother of missing Dublin girl Amy Fitzpatrick, who was last seen in Spain over a week ago, today called on the British ex-pat community to get behind the search for her daughter.

POLICE in Spain have launched a massive hunt for an Irish teen who went missing there on New Year’s Day after babysitting for family friends.