Man pleads not guilty to murder of Japanese man in Dundalk by reason of insanity

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A court heard today that victim Yosuke Sasaki (24) was a 'fine, young man' who worked in a local factory in Dundalk.

Yosuke Sasaki was killed in January 2018. Image: Facebook Yosuke Sasaki was killed in January 2018. Image: Facebook A JAPANESE MAN who came to Ireland to improve his English was stabbed to death on a public street by an Egyptian with paranoid schizophrenia, a barrister has told the Central Criminal Court.

Gillane said the deceased was a “fine young man”, a hard worker who was very intelligent and dedicated to trying to improve himself. In a bid to learn English he joined a WhatsApp group and from that he met an English woman who wanted to learn Japanese. Immediately after the stabbing another man named Dylan Grehan encountered the accused and was also struck from behind.

He further pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to criminal damage of a car at Long Avenue in Dundalk on the same date and to burglary between 2-3 January 2018 at Long Avenue in Dundalk by entering a building as a trespasser and committing criminal damage.He traveled to Dundalk the day before the stabbing where Gillane said he appeared to have been squatting on the premises at Long Avenue.

 

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Should never have been in the country in the first place to commit this murder of an innocent person CharlieFlanagan another life lost under your watch FineGael open door policy costing innocent people there lives

He killed an innocent young man. Feck his insanity plea. Life.

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