Shop owner gets life after customer killed over 70c call

An internet and call shop owner has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a customer, whom he kicked to death after he refused to pay in full for a 70c phonecall.

Zhen Dong Zhao, aged 36, a Chinese man with an address at Jervis St in Dublin, had pleaded not guilty to murdering the 40-year-old man on May 20, 2011. However, he admitted kicking the father-of-two a number of times outside his 24-hour shop, e-Times, on Dublin’s Wellington Quay.

Dubliner Noel Fegan was originally from Finglas, but the reformed drug addict had been living in Aughrim St in the city.