Kildare schoolgirl Ana Kriegel was murdered last year.They will be sentenced next Tuesday morning.
The two boys who murdered Ana Kriegel will be sentenced next week.
At their sentence hearing today, the court heard Boy A now accepts he caused her death, but Boy B still maintains his innocence.
Following various medical assessments since their convictions in June, the court heard BOY A now accepts that he caused Ana Kriegel’s death in a derelict farmhouse in Lucan on May 14th last year, but maintains he's innocent of his second conviction for aggravated sexual assault.
Boy B on the other hand still doesn’t accept the jury’s verdict and maintains he didn't have any part at all in what happened.
Through the accounts they gave to experts over the past few months, the court heard there’s still a dispute over whose idea it was to meet her, who decided BOY B was to call for her, who brought what to the abandoned house, how her clothing came to be removed, and when, who assaulted her and with what, and who smashed her phone when it started to ring.
The boys will be sentenced next Tuesday morning.
Life is a 'misery.'
Earlier today Ana Kriegel’s mother Geraldine told the Central Criminal Court that life without her daughter is a misery she and her family must endure for the rest of their lives.
She was addressing the sentence hearing of the two boys who were found guilty of murdering her 14-year-old daughter on May 14th last year on behalf of her family.
She said life without Ana is no longer a life, not even an existence, adding how every family occasion without her is entrenched with pain and sorrow.
Reading out a paragraph Ana had written on hopes for her future when she started secondary school, she said she had hoped to go to Paris University like her father, and maybe get a dog afterwards and married too.
“I have a good life,” she wrote, “and I hope everyone I meet will be nice”.
