Man guilty of schoolboy soccer star’s murder

A LIMERICK man was yesterday found guilty of the murder a schoolboy soccer star he stabbed to death when he stormed into a house where the boy was visiting friends.

After two hours, a jury at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Limerick returned a unanimous verdict against John O’Loughlin, aged 21, of Cecil Street, convicting him of the murder of Ukraine-born Roman Vysochan, aged 16, at Carrig Midhe, Corbally, on May 10, 2008.

O’Loughlin, who denied the charge, pleaded guilty to assaulting a second youth aged 15, in the same incident.