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07/05/2010
Teen Gets Life For 'Sadistic' Screwdriver Killings
A teenage double murderer has been sentenced.
The killer, a 19-year-old Dublin man, has been jailed for life for what was described by a judge as the brutal, savage and sadistic murder of two Polish men in Drimnagh in 2008.
David Curran of Lissadel Green in Drimnagh was convicted of murdering Pawel Kalite and Marius Szwajkos.
Mr Justice Liam McKechnie said there was something profoundly sinister about the way David Curran attacked two men with 'lethal accuracy' when he stabbed them through their skulls with a screwdriver.
Victim impact statements were delivered on behalf of the families of both men by their former employer Alan Kennedy.
The families described their continuing sense of loss and pain following the murders.
Mr Kalite's parents said his death left them with the deepest scars. A stranger had decided the future of their hard-working son who had never harmed anyone in his life.
The family of Maurius Swajkos said he was full of life and hopes and dream but they were destroyed in just minutes in February 2008.
(BMcC/GK)
The killer, a 19-year-old Dublin man, has been jailed for life for what was described by a judge as the brutal, savage and sadistic murder of two Polish men in Drimnagh in 2008.
David Curran of Lissadel Green in Drimnagh was convicted of murdering Pawel Kalite and Marius Szwajkos.
Mr Justice Liam McKechnie said there was something profoundly sinister about the way David Curran attacked two men with 'lethal accuracy' when he stabbed them through their skulls with a screwdriver.
Victim impact statements were delivered on behalf of the families of both men by their former employer Alan Kennedy.
The families described their continuing sense of loss and pain following the murders.
Mr Kalite's parents said his death left them with the deepest scars. A stranger had decided the future of their hard-working son who had never harmed anyone in his life.
The family of Maurius Swajkos said he was full of life and hopes and dream but they were destroyed in just minutes in February 2008.
(BMcC/GK)
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