'There is humanity in everyone' - Kriegel killers not evil says former Mountjoy governor

However, he said he is not happy with how society responded to the crime.

The former governor of Mountjoy prison has called on the Government to invest resources to investigate the growing trend of violent juvenile crime.

John Lonergan was commenting on the case of the two youths who murdered Ana Kriegel. He told RTÉ radio’s Today with Sean O’Rourke show that while he believed the two boys had “committed a horribly evil act,” he did not believe that Boy A and Boy B were evil.