Court accepts it cannot review Boy B’s sentence for murdering Ana Kriegel

Last year, Ms Justice Iseult O'Malley, at the Supreme Court, ruled that a sentencing court does not have jurisdiction to review terms of detention imposed on child offenders

Boy A and Boy B were convicted by a Central Criminal Court jury in June 2019 of murdering Ana Kriegel at a derelict house in St Catherine’s Park in Lucan in May 2018. Boy A was also convicted of Ana's aggravated sexual assault in a manner that involved serious violence. File picture

A Central Criminal Court judge has accepted that he cannot review the sentence he imposed on one of the two men who murdered schoolgirl Ana Kriegel when they were 13 years old.

The case of Boy B, now aged 21 and who cannot be named due to protections for underage offenders under the Children Act, was raised on Monday before Mr Justice Paul McDermott.