Overview
- Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring imposed mandatory life terms for murder with concurrent sentences for assault: six years for Lee and three years for Delappe.
- CCTV captured Lee emerging from his home to attack from behind as Delappe followed with a hard plastic pickaxe handle and struck repeatedly.
- Strok suffered a fractured skull and catastrophic brain injury in the March 30, 2024 Clondalkin assault and died in hospital four days later.
- The court found Lee acted on weak reports from youths after an earlier bus-stop incident involving the victims.
- Co-accused Conor Rafferty was acquitted of murder and is due to be sentenced next week for his admitted assault on David Druzinec.