Man jailed for life for killing of Dublin schoolgirl
A Dublin teenager has been jailed for life for murdering and raping 12-year-old Michaela Davis in west Dublin last year.
Jonathan Byrne (aged 19), of Lohunda Downs, Clonsilla, pleaded guilty to murdering and raping the schoolgirl twice on August 28, 2010 at St Mocha’s playing fields on Porterstown Road, Clonsilla. The child’s body was found later that day on a bank of the Royal Canal.
