Daniel Murtagh faces life sentence for murder of Nadine Lott 

The jury accepted the State's case that this was a case of murder and "nothing short of murder"

The injuries to Nadine Lott (pictured) were so serious that she never regained consciousness after the attack on December 14 and died three days later in St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin.

Daniel Murtagh, who beat his former partner Nadine Lott to the point where she was "completely unrecognisable", leaving her with "extreme and grotesque" injuries from which she never recovered, has been found guilty of her murder.

The 12 jurors took five hours and 46 minutes over two days to unanimously reject Murtagh's defence that he was too intoxicated to have formed the intent to murder his ex-girlfriend and that the "bloodbath" would never have happened "but for the drink and drugs" he consumed that night.