Man sentenced to life in prison for kicking father-of-three to death

A Dublin man has been found guilty of kicking another man to death then setting fire to his body in a derelict mansion last year.

It took the Central Criminal Court jury of eight men and four women just under six hours to find Alan Walsh (aged 39) of 43, Edenmore Park in Coolock guilty of the murder of father-of-three, Dermot Sheridan at Red Court, Seafield Road East, Clontarf between August 8 and August 9 2007, by a majority of 10 to two. They also found him guilty of arson at the same time and place.