Two 14-year-old boys have been found guilty at Dublin’s Criminal Courts of Justice of the murder of 14 year-old Ana Kriegel in the city last year.
One of the boys, known as Boy A, was also found guilty of aggravated sexual assault.
The jury of eight men and four women spent 14 hours and 25 minutes deliberating.
Ana Kriegel’s naked body was found with a ligature around the neck in a derelict house in Lucan, Co Dublin, days after the 14 year-old went missing on May 14, 2018.
Former state pathologist Professor Marie Cassidy identified around 50 areas of injury on the schoolgirl’s head and body, and concluded the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head and neck.
Cassidy also said that there was evidence of penetration or attempted penetration of the vagina.