Teenager pleads guilty to murder of Dublin schoolgirl

A Dublin teenager has pleaded guilty to murdering 12-year-old Michaela Davis in west Dublin last year.

Jonathan Byrne (aged 19), of Lohunda Downs in Clonsilla, admitted murdering the schoolgirl on August 28, 2010 at the playing fields on Porterstown Road, Clonsilla. Michaela’s body was found later that day on a bank of the Royal Canal.