Killer who 'set the agenda' for fatal beating of Dale Creighton has jail term cut on appeal

Dale's father said he “couldn’t believe that my son was left unrecognisable in the bed, that one human being could do that to another".

The man who was said to have “set the agenda” for the fatal beating of Dale Creighton, 20, on a footbridge in Tallaght five years ago, has had his jail term cut on appeal.

David Burke, 29, with a last address at Beechpark, Collinstown, Co Westmeath, initially stood trial for the murder of Mr Creighton along with six others but on the 15th day of their trial those charges were dropped and each accused pleaded guilty to lesser offences.