A convicted child murderer can now be named following a successful application by RTÉ to lift a court order that prevented the man and his victim from being publicly identified.
, admitted murdering the child on November 3rd 2019. The sentence hearing was told that Dillon struck Brooklyn with a hammer and stabbed him 27 times in the torso, arms and neck. The court heard that Brooklyn’s mother believed that Dillon was “obsessed” with her son.that there was a certain “family relationship” between Dillon and the deceased and as a result the accused man could not be named in the context of the location of the offence.
The judge described the murder as a “horrific breach of trust” and an “unspeakably violent crime” before sentencing Dillon to the mandatory term of life imprisonment.Speaking outside the court last February, Brooklyn’s grieving mother, Sonia Aylmer, called on Minister for Justice Helen McEntee to change Section 252 of the Children Act which prevented child murder victims from being identified.
The Court of Appeal found that Section 252 of the Children Act, 2001 prohibited the identification of child victims and made it an offence to publish anything that could identify a child who is an alleged victim of an offence, including a deceased child., ruling at the Court of Appeal last October, said that the language in Section 252 of the Act was “clear and unequivocal” and that if it were to be changed it would be a decision for the Oireachtas.
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