10 years for unlawful teen killing

AN 18-year-old man who killed another teenager in "a motiveless crime" within hours of meeting him at a house party has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by Judge Michael White at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Stephen Kearney (aged 20) of Coultry Drive, Ballymun, Dublin, admitted unlawfully killing 18-year-old Francis Gallagher at Coultry Road on October 25, 2004.