Two Limerick men have been jailed for life for the murder of a father-of-two who died after he was stabbed more than a dozen times.
Patrick Desmond (29) of St Mary's Park, Limerick, and his nephew Stuart Moloney (18) of Castlepark, Moyross, had denied murdering 41-year-old Mr Patrick Crawford at Ballygrennan Close, Moyross, on June 2nd 2002.
They had also denied assaulting him causing serious harm on the same date.
A jury at the Central Criminal Court today returned a unanimous guilty verdict on both counts following five hours of deliberations at the end of the eight day trial.
Yesterday, Mr Justice Barry White had sent the jury of eleven men and one woman to a hotel overnight. This is the third time that a Limerick jury has recorded a unanimous guilty verdict in a murder trial since the Central Criminal Court began sitting in the city last July.