Teen jailed for 15 years for beating girl to death

A teenager who brutally murdered a 16-year-old girl was jailed for a minimum of 15 years today.

Teen jailed for 15 years for beating girl to death
Wed, 31 May, 2006 - 12:26

A teenager who brutally murdered a 16-year-old girl was jailed for a minimum of 15 years today.

Thomas Purcell, 18, from Windsor Road, Belfast, admitted battering Megan McAlorum to death with a log in a forest near the city after they had sex in the early hours of Easter Sunday in April 2004.

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