'He was that badly beaten I didn't recognise him', mother of murdered gunman tells court 

The court adjourned the hearing to continue on a date in May

Browne's Steakhouse restaurant in Blanchardstown, Dublin, where the incidents took place in December 2023. Picture: Niall Carson/PA 

The mother of murdered gunman Tristan Sherry, aged 26, was unable to recognise her son because his face was so badly beaten when a group set upon him after he fatally shot gangland figure Jason Hennessy Snr in a busy restaurant on Christmas Eve over two years ago, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

Fiona Murphy, prosecuting, at a sentencing hearing for three men convicted of Sherry's murder, on Thursday read statements by the deceased's mother, Mary Hand and sister, Savannah.