Teenager's life sentence for Urantsetseg Tserendorj's murder 'disproportionate', court told

The president of the three-judge Court of Appeal said the court would try to deliver its judgment on December 19

Urantsetseg Tserendorj was stabbed in the neck on a walkway between George’s Dock and Custom House Quay in the IFSC, Dublin on January 20, 2021, and was declared dead nine days later on the evening of January 29.

A life sentence with a review after 13 years for the teenager who murdered Urantsetseg Tserendorj as she walked home alone on the Dublin docklands was disproportionate, a barrister has told the Court of Appeal.

Mark Lynam SC told the three-judge court on Thursday that his client, who is now aged 17 and had 31 previous convictions at the time of sentencing, should have received a determinate sentence or at least be entitled to a sentence review sooner than 13 years. Mr Lynam told the court that internationally, Ireland is being encouraged to move away from life sentences for children because they can be "inhuman and degrading".