Brian Murphy's mother 'stunned, shocked' at appeal court decisions

The family of the slain teenager Brian Murphy said tonight that the criminal justice system was “in tatters” and had swung too far in favour of the accused.

Dermot Laide had his four-year sentence for the 18-year-old’s manslaughter overturned by the Court of Criminal Appeal, while Desmond Ryan’s nine-month sentence for violent disorder during the August 2000 incident was also quashed.