Boy, 13, jailed for Irishman’s murder

A 13-year-old boy, who murdered Cobh man Christopher ‘Jack’ Barry just before Christmas, has been locked up for a minimum of 11 years.

The mother of the boy, one of the youngest children in Britain to plead guilty to murder and who cannot be named for legal reasons, wept in court as the sentence was read out.

The 13-year-old pleaded guilty to stabbing 53-year-old Christopher Barry twice in the chest outside his home in Edmonton, north London, on December 14 last year.