Court hears how student was killed outside nightclub

An 18-year-old student died from brain damage after he was viciously kicked in the head by a gang of at least four youths outside a well-known Dublin hotel, a court has heard.

Brian Murphy was savagely attacked after an altercation occurred outside Club Annabell’s nightclub in the Burlington Hotel. He was punched and knocked to the ground and subsequently kicked in the head after he became isolated from a larger fight that had broken out.