Ireland's Shocking Crime: Ana Kriégel Murder Unraveled - Part 2
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00:27 Finglas Garda station in North Dublin. By 2.30pm on the 25th of May, the small and
00:33 stuffy interview room had become increasingly difficult to be in. All five
00:38 of the rooms occupants were feeling the stress, when itself was designed for just
00:42 three people at most. Over the last two days boy B had been interviewed
00:47 collectively for around 10 hours. His mother was with him as he was interviewed
00:52 and held his hand for the first interview. As the questions continued to
00:57 be put to her son, she moved her chair further and further away, becoming
01:01 increasingly distressed at the nature of the questions being put to her child. His
01:05 solicitor had been silent for most of the interview and had started to clash
01:09 with the interviewing guardie more frequently over their questioning of his
01:12 young client. The pressure was on for the Garda detectives, Donal Daly and Damien
01:18 Gannon. They only had a few more hours to get the boy to reveal what had happened
01:22 to Anna 11 days earlier. It was also important that they spent time at the
01:26 beginning of the interview to build a rapport and a non-judgmental atmosphere.
01:30 So large parts of the first interview, Daly was asking boy B about his hobbies
01:34 and interests. He could take breaks whenever he wanted and great care was
01:39 taken to not push him too far. When he was at ease, the next part of the
01:44 interview model was to let boy B tell his story in his own words without being
01:48 interrupted. Daly then began to challenge him gently and highlight where his story
01:53 was inconsistent or improbable. The forensic evidence was overwhelming but
01:59 it was all against boy A. They knew boy B had played a role in taking her to the
02:04 abandoned house where she was killed and that he had been there when Anna had
02:07 died. But that wasn't enough. They needed to prove it. The process had been an
02:13 exhausting one but their questioning had caused boy B to revise his account of
02:17 exactly what had happened that day. The day before during his first interview
02:21 with the garder, he had repeated his story from the week before. He said that
02:26 boy A had asked him to call in at Anna's home and get her to come out. He was then
02:31 told to bring her to boy A who was in St. Catharines Park so they could talk. He
02:35 then said he left the pair before he headed home to do homework. As part of
02:40 the investigation, officers trawled through more than 700 hours of CCTV
02:44 footage from around the area where Anna had disappeared from. Gannon and Daly put
02:49 it to boy B that the CCTV footage did not match his version of events. His
02:55 statement that he had taken a particular route home could not be corroborated by
02:59 the CCTV but boy B stuck to his story and tried to come up with various excuses as
03:05 to why the footage didn't match what he'd said. As the interview for that day
03:11 ended, he spent the night in an office on the second floor of the station. The
03:15 Children Act forbids children from being held in cells so the guardie bought him
03:19 bedding and cleared the office so that boy B and his mother could sleep there.
03:22 The station was closed to all other prisoners so that boy B did not have any
03:26 contact with any other adults.
03:31 The following day his fourth interview started. This was when his story started
03:37 to change. His solicitor said that boy B had reflected on his statements. "I'm going
03:43 to retell the story of what actually happened," boy B said. "What I told you
03:48 yesterday was a lie." He explained that he and Anna had met with boy A by the BMX
03:54 track in the park. Until then, boy B had remained remarkably calm. As they were
03:59 dealing with a minor, it was important that they knew exactly what his
04:03 understandings of words like "murder" and "detention" were. He was able to give
04:07 answers that were both to the point and accurate. Gannon asked him if he knew
04:12 what "arrest" meant. Boy B replied, "that you're detaining me for something that I
04:16 did or might have done." His confession that he had lied did prove to be a
04:21 turning point in the investigation. They could use the fact that he had lied to
04:26 cast doubt on all his other previous statements. Whenever he said something
04:30 that sounded untrue, they could remind him that he had previously lied and
04:33 been caught out. Up until this point, boy B had not shown any emotional distress
04:39 aside from boredom and occasional frustration. As Gannon and Daly began to
04:43 show him evidence from the abandoned house where Anna had died, this began to
04:48 change. Due to his age, Daly treaded carefully with him so as not to appear
04:51 intimidating. As the fifth interview got underway, however, the atmosphere
04:56 dramatically changed. Daly's voice started to show signs of frustration,
05:01 indicating he was getting tired of the lies he was being told by boy B. "You owe
05:06 it to everyone to start telling the truth here. You owe it to your mum, to
05:10 yourself, to tell the truth. Because unfortunately, a girl has been brutally
05:15 murdered."
05:18 Boy B had changed different parts of his story, but he kept up his argument that
05:22 he had no idea about what had happened in the abandoned house. Finally, in the late
05:28 afternoon of the 25th of May, halfway through the fifth interview, the break
05:32 that the police had been looking for finally came. Boy B was informed by Daly
05:37 that a witness saw a teenager they believed was him walking towards the
05:41 abandoned house. Boy B admitted to going into the field to look around, but was
05:46 adamant he hadn't gone any further than that. Daly said, "You're making this up as
05:52 you go along, Boy B, I have to say. I'm presenting facts and evidence to you and
05:57 you're changing your story to suit. You can't keep doing this." Boy B went silent.
06:04 After a while, he asked if his mother could leave the room, but this wasn't
06:08 possible as he needed a guardian with him at all times due to his age. When the
06:13 solicitor recommended a break, Daly said, "I think we're at a crucial point here.
06:17 The truth, that's all we want." Boy B took a deep breath. He then proceeded to tell
06:24 the guardie that Boy A had gone into the abandoned house with Anna.
06:29 "I left, and that's when I heard the scream, and then I ran. It was a really
06:36 strong scream. I knew that it was Anna, but since Boy A was there, she'd be fine.
06:40 He'd protect her. The scream was like, really loud. Just before it ended, it got
06:47 muffled, like someone covered her mouth. Boy B then started to cry. So did his
06:52 mother. While the interviews with Boy B continued, what about Boy A? Upon his
06:59 arrest, he was interviewed at the Klondalkin Garda station with his father
07:03 and their solicitor. Just like with Boy B, they began asking him if he understood
07:08 right from wrong. Leaving the door open for somebody is right, tripping somebody
07:13 up or stealing a chocolate bar is wrong, Boy A told Detective Guardie Marcus
07:17 Rondry and Thomas Doyle. He said that whilst he had met Anna in the park, he
07:22 wasn't with her at the time leading up to her going missing. He was shown CCTV
07:26 footage of the park, and he pointed out two people that could have been the ones
07:30 who attacked him. He said, "That's good news. Is there any more footage?" The figures
07:36 he were pointing to were actually Anna and Boy B. It was now time for them to
07:42 tell him about the forensic evidence that linked him to the scene of the
07:45 crime. After Detective Guardie Doyle told him that blood belonging to Anna had been
07:49 found on his boots, Boy A responded, "Are you joking me? You can't be serious." Boy A
07:56 then said he needed some air, so the interview was paused so he could have a
07:59 glass of water. When questioning resumed, Doyle said, "What I'm saying to you is the
08:06 only place you could have got the blood on your boots was in that room. So, were
08:11 you in that room?" "No," he replied. When asked about what the analysis of his phone
08:16 had uncovered, he said the torture methods results had come up after he was
08:20 looking for horror films online. He said torture films didn't interest him. In
08:26 spite of the evidence, he confessed nothing. Most of his answers were, "No
08:30 comment," or "I don't know." Thursday, May 25th, Inspector O'Neill received a call. It
08:37 was an official from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Boy A
08:42 could be charged with murder. An hour later, he was brought in a Garda van in
08:46 the company of his parents to the Children Court in Smithfield in Dublin.
08:50 Following a search of his house, the evidence against Boy A continued to
08:54 mount. In his bedroom, two mobile phones were found. They contained almost twelve
08:59 thousand five hundred images of a predominantly pornographic nature. One
09:03 featured a man in a balaclava looking at a semi-naked woman. Another showed a man
09:07 choke a woman as a second man watched.
09:11 When a search of the memories of the phones was conducted, more disturbing
09:16 evidence would come to light. It was revealed that several pornographic
09:19 videos had been accessed online, with one title referring to "Russian teenagers" and
09:25 another referring to a woman called "Anastasia." Evidence of searches for
09:29 child porn, horse porn, and dead boy prank in abandoned haunted school were also
09:35 found. During the trial, however, this evidence would not be heard by the jury.
09:41 Also in his bedroom, they found a backpack containing knee pads, shin guards,
09:48 gloves, a snood, and a homemade mask. This was soon become known among investigators
09:58 as "The Murder Kit." The gloves explained why his fingerprints hadn't been found
10:04 anywhere at the scene. The skull-like mask was particularly important. It was
10:10 skin-colored and covered only half the top of the face. Iron nose holes had been
10:14 cut out and sharp teeth had been cut into the upper jaw and painted red. On the
10:19 inside and outside of the mask, the knee pads, the gloves, and the backpack, Anna's
10:24 blood was found. When the analysis of the semen found on her top had been
10:29 completed, it was confirmed that the DNA had belonged to Boy A. He was then
10:33 charged with aggravated sexual assault. The aggravated part refers to the
10:38 extreme level of violence that had been used. However, the clothes he had worn
10:42 that day yielded no forensic evidence. It later came to light that when he arrived
10:47 home that day, he appeared shaken and upset, and he again repeated the story
10:51 about being attacked. His mother then innocently washed his clothes, and those
10:56 working on the case were sure that she knew nothing about what had actually
10:59 happened. She believed her son had been the victim of an attack. This new
11:04 evidence allowed for Boy B to be re-arrested for further questioning. He
11:08 was arrested again by appointment on the 8th of July. He would be interviewed
11:12 three more times by Gannon and Daly, who used the same methods they had used
11:16 before, being gentle to try and get him to reveal more. Boy B said that Boy A had
11:21 worn the mask, which he described as a really cool mask that Boy B had made for
11:25 Halloween the year before, when Boy A had carried out the attack on Anna. He said
11:30 that he had gone into the house by himself before picking up a stick there.
11:33 He was still adamant that he had played no part in Anna's murder. He also
11:38 described a conversation that he had had with Boy A a month before the killing. He
11:42 described it as follows, "Hey, want to kill somebody? No? Ah, here, why not? Because
11:52 it's retarded? Oh, come on. Who are you planning on killing? Anna Creasel? In your
12:00 dreams." He said that his friend always said things like this, and he assumed he
12:06 wasn't serious. He maintained he had no idea what his friend was planning to do
12:11 on the 14th of May. Daly asked him why he didn't do anything in the room. He
12:18 replied, "Because I was scared. I was shocked. I didn't know what to do, because
12:23 my brain was frozen, frozen in place. I didn't know what to do." He said that the
12:30 day after Anna had gone missing, he'd lied when questioned because he was "just
12:34 trying to forget about it and pretend nothing happened." He said he was ashamed
12:38 that he had failed to help Anna, and that he was scared of being framed by Boy A.
12:42 "But you could have saved her," the detective said. "I know." "Why didn't you try and
12:49 save her?" "I don't know."
12:53 Daly accused the boy of telling lie after lie after lie, saying, "You go and
13:02 collect a girl that Boy A wants to kill, and you bring her to an abandoned house,
13:05 and you, in your words, hand over that girl to Boy A, the girl he said he wanted
13:11 to kill. And then you were deceptive afterwards. You lie to everybody. Lie, lie,
13:16 lie. You're in a corner, and you try to wriggle out of it by telling a story to
13:21 suit. Do you see how this looks for you?" "I didn't know he would murder her," Boy B
13:26 said. "I kept thinking to myself, 'This isn't real. This isn't happening.' I kept
13:31 thinking Boy A wouldn't do this. It's not like him."
13:36 Detectives had reached a crossroads. They either needed to charge him or let
13:41 him go. As the matter of charging him was deferred to the Director of Prosecutions,
13:45 Boy B was released. After four days, officers were given permission to charge
13:51 him. He was rearrested and charged with the murder of Anna Creasel. He didn't
13:56 give a reply. On the 31st of May 2018, at Newlands Cross crematorium, the funeral
14:02 for Anna Creasel was held. Her family requested that those in attendance wore
14:06 sparkle and colour in memory of Anna. As she was part of a dance troupe, Dance
14:11 Allée, members wearing silver sequins and red headscarves formed a guard of honour
14:16 at her funeral. A request was also made that any donations made be given to the
14:21 Russian-Irish Adoption Group. A Russian flag and Russian doll were placed over
14:26 her coffin. On the 2nd of August, after more than two months in custody, Boy A
14:32 was granted bail in the High Court. Boy B was granted bail on the 21st of August
14:37 after serving just over four weeks in custody. While they were no longer in
14:41 custody, they were heavily supervised and would remain so until their trial began.
14:47 The age of criminal responsibility in Ireland is 12 years old. This drops to 10
14:53 when the case involves rape or murder. Both boys were 13 years old. They were
14:58 the youngest people in the history of the Republic of Ireland to be charged
15:01 with murder. For adults, charges of this nature would carry a potential life
15:05 sentence, but as the accused were both minors, these were not mandatory for
15:09 children. Mr. Justice Paul McDermott was assigned to hear it. Leading the case on
15:14 behalf of the state was Brendan Greene, a criminal barrister with vast experience
15:19 of high profile and complex cases. The trial of Boy A and Boy B began on the
15:26 29th of April 2019 in the Central Criminal Court. The judge and barristers
15:31 would break with tradition and not wear wigs and gowns. Boy A and Boy B would be
15:36 allowed to sit next to their parents in the public gallery. In accordance with
15:40 the Children Act, the general public would not be allowed to witness the
15:43 trial to ensure that their identities could be protected. Only bona fide
15:47 journalists would be allowed to attend, but they were asked that numbers be kept
15:50 down and the court would intervene if necessary.
15:53 Mr. Justice McDermott denied an application lodged by the lawyers of Boy
15:57 A to have him tried separately. They argued that the jury was bound to be
16:02 prejudiced against him after hearing Boy B repeatedly accuse him, and although the
16:06 interviews of one couldn't be used against the other, they said that the
16:10 jurors could not help but be influenced by these interviews. In refusing their
16:14 bid, Mr. Justice McDermott said "it would be a distortion of the factual background
16:18 if the entire factual matrix of what happened in the lead-up to the death of
16:22 Miss Craziel was not set out in full to the jury." He also said he would give
16:26 jurors strong warnings about not relying on Boy B's interviews when considering
16:30 the case against Boy A. For Boy B, his defense was far more straightforward. No
16:37 forensic evidence tied him to the murder, and the majority of the evidence the
16:40 prosecution had was evidence he had provided during his interviews. The
16:45 priority of his lawyers was to limit the damage the interviews had caused to his
16:49 case, especially with the amount of lies he had told and the inconsistencies in
16:53 his story. In early 2019, Boy B's defense team requested that he be examined by a
16:59 mental health professional. Dr. Colm Humphreys, an experienced psychologist
17:03 who specializes in childhood trauma, was brought in. He said that Boy B had been
17:07 traumatized by witnessing the attack on Anna and subsequently diagnosed him with
17:11 post-traumatic stress disorder. He said that the boy's PTSD contributed to the
17:16 lies he had told investigators and that he had lied to protect himself. Dr.
17:22 Humphreys said that it was his opinion that Boy B was unaware of what was going
17:25 to happen to Anna and that he was sexually naive and he had gone into the
17:29 house in the hopes of watching Boy A and Anna kiss. Although the defense team had
17:34 planned to call Dr. Humphreys as a witness, this was a risky move. During his
17:38 sessions with him, Boy B had given information about what he had seen in
17:41 the abandoned house that he had failed to tell the police. He told the doctor
17:45 that he had seen Boy A standing over her with his trousers open during the attack.
17:49 He also said that he had seen Anna gasping before going silent. If the
17:53 doctor was called to give evidence for the defense, he would be open to
17:56 cross-examination on these matters, which would have helped the state argue their
18:00 case. Boy B had continued to lie to them right up until his final interview.
18:04 Throughout the entire trial, Geraldine and Patrick were sat in the courtroom.
18:09 They heard every piece of devastating evidence, but they were determined to see
18:13 it through to its conclusion. Even when Professor Marie Cassidy spent the 40
18:17 minutes listing all the injury sites on Anna's body and described the autopsy
18:21 process, Geraldine and Patrick were there. Boy A and Boy B were excused for this
18:26 part of the trial due to the graphic nature of the evidence that was being
18:29 presented.
18:31 When her parents were called to give their witness statements, they made sure
18:37 that everyone in the courtroom knew exactly who Anna was. They talked about
18:40 her hobbies and her interests. Although the jury would not see a picture of Anna
18:44 alive, the descriptions her parents gave painted a clear and detailed picture of
18:49 the kind of child she was. Prosecutor Greene also made it clear to emphasize
18:54 how badly she had been bullied and used this to illustrate that she could be
18:57 very easily taken advantage of. A computer-generated 3D model of Glenwood
19:05 House was used and the locations of items including Anna's clothes and the
19:08 murder weapons were shown in the model alongside the photographs. This helped
19:14 the jury clearly visualize the scene without having to visit.
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19:52 The violent imagery and pornography found on the phone during the search was
19:56 inadmissible because of the six-month gap between the material being accessed
20:00 and the murder. Judge McDermott ruled that the admission of any of the
20:03 pornographic material would be unfair. He made the same ruling about the internet
20:07 searches made by Boy B for knives and for a YouTube video called 'My Girlfriend
20:12 Tortured, Stabbed and Starved Me'. During the trial, portions of Boy B's
20:18 interview were played for the court. In it, he called Anna an outcast and said
20:22 she wore slutty clothes. "I thought of Anna like a weirdo, someone I should not
20:26 be around." This left her parents visibly upset. Another part of the trial that
20:33 caused them huge distress was hearing Boy B's description of how Boy A had
20:37 attacked her. Nevertheless, her parents stayed in the court, showing tremendous
20:42 courage and dignity. The boys were sat in different parts of the court and were
20:46 never seen interacting with each other. On day 15 of the trial, the court was
20:50 shown footage of Boy B's interview with the police where he admitted to lying.
20:54 During this, a note was handed to the lawyers saying that Boy B had become
20:58 overwhelmed with anxiety and was suffering a panic attack. Court was
21:02 adjourned for the day and an ambulance was called. He was treated on-site and was
21:06 checked by a GP that evening. He recovered and no reason for the panic
21:10 attack was given. Boy B's father said his son was "very naive and immature" and
21:16 "very hungry for friendship." He said that he tended to believe everything his
21:20 friends were saying. Despite some of the evidence being ruled as inadmissible, the
21:27 state had built a strong case against Boy A. It was made up of three main
21:31 elements - the CCTV from the park, the lies he had told including faking an attack,
21:36 and the forensic evidence that linked him to the scene. For Boy B, they were
21:41 relying on his numerous lies he had told during his interviews and the amount of
21:45 times he had changed his story. But there was still no forensic evidence. The state
21:51 needed to prove that he knew the plan was to kill Anna that day. In order to do
21:55 this, they referred back to the admission that Boy A had asked him the month
21:59 earlier if he wanted to kill her. If he believed Boy A was being serious, then he
22:04 was guilty. If he thought he was joking, he was innocent. The jury would be
22:09 repeatedly told that being at the scene of a murder is not a crime, nor is failing
22:14 to intervene to stop a murder. On Wednesday the 12th of June, after seven
22:22 weeks of evidence, the jury retired to deliberate. They would be in discussion
22:26 for the next 14 hours and 24 minutes over the following five days. 2.02pm, June
22:38 18th 2019. The jury had reached their verdict. Boy A was found guilty of the
22:47 murder and aggravated sexual assault of Anastasia Kreizel. Boy B was found guilty
22:53 of the murder of Anastasia Kreizel. The forewoman confirmed that the verdicts
22:57 were unanimous. Sat at the back of the courtroom, Boy B turned to his mother and
23:02 asked, "I'm guilty." The mother hugged her son while his father became noticeably
23:07 upset. Geraldine and Patrigue were silent as the verdict was read, again
23:13 demonstrating the tremendous dignity they had shown throughout the trial.
23:18 Following the verdict, Mr. Justice Paul McDermott thanked the members of the jury
23:22 for their service and relieved them of jury duty for the rest of their lives.
23:27 This has been a very difficult trial. I can't offer you anything apart from, of
23:32 course, sincere gratitude.
23:36 Anna was our strength.
23:46 And Anna was a dream come true for us, and she always will be. She'll stay in our hearts
23:52 forever loved and forever cherished. We love you, Anna.
23:57 Following their conviction, the prosecuting counsel said that places
24:03 were available at the Oberstown Children Detention Campus. The judge remanded them
24:08 in custody and sentencing was adjourned until the 15th of July. In order to allow
24:12 psychological assessments to take place on the two teenage boys, sentencing was
24:17 again adjourned to October. In the days after the verdict, the creasial family
24:23 held a memorial service for Anna in St. Catharines Park, where those who knew and
24:27 loved her gathered together to remember her and mark her all too short life.
24:33 Please remember that and come back and spend a few moments with her from time to time.
24:37 And thank you all for coming to join us today and for the wonderful support that all of you have given us over the last year. Thank you.
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25:59 Throughout and after the trial, people were outraged that Anna's life had been
26:05 put on full display and then picked apart, while the boys convicted of her
26:09 murder had total anonymity. Denise Fergus, the mother of James Bulger, who was
26:16 kidnapped, tortured and murdered by two teenage boys in 1993, expressed her
26:21 concerns about the decision to not name the killers. In the case of her son, the
26:26 decision was made to name John Venables and Robert Thompson, which was
26:30 unprecedented at the time. It is and remains a criminal offence to ever
26:37 identify either Boy A or Boy B, and they will continue to be known only by these
26:42 names. On the 5th of November 2019, the boys were sentenced. Boy A was sentenced
26:48 to life in prison with a review period after 12 years of incarceration. He was
26:53 also given 12 years for aggravated sexual assault, with this running alongside his
26:57 murder sentence. He was also placed on the sex offenders register. Boy B was
27:03 sentenced to 15 years for murder, which will be reviewed after 8 years.
27:07 There was an onus on the court today to have regard, we heard, to the boys'
27:12 rehabilitation, but it also had to consider the evidence in this trial. He
27:16 said to the accused today, as he sentenced them, that they were responsible for
27:20 Anna's murder and that they had to pay for the consequences of their crime. He
27:24 issued the sentences, life in detention with a review at 12 years for Boy A and
27:28 15 years with a review at 8 years for Boy B. So Boy A is eligible to be released
27:33 at the age of 26, Boy B at the age of 23. And after Mr Justice McDermott
27:38 sentenced the boys today, well he told them that they have a lengthy sentence,
27:41 but he said that they have the prospect of returning to their families, which is
27:45 something that Anna and her family do not have.
27:48 When passing his sentence, Mr Justice Paul McDermott said, "The two boys bear
27:54 responsibility for her murder and must be accountable and accept the consequences
27:58 of their crimes." He added that this murder was "the most serious, disturbing
28:02 and shocking type" because of the extreme violence that had been used.
28:06 The judge turned to the boys as he told them, "Both of you will be required to
28:12 serve lengthy periods of detention, but you will have the opportunity to return
28:16 to your families, your community, return to society when you are relatively young
28:21 men. When that will be is not yet determined, but much depends on your
28:26 behaviour and attitude over the coming years. You have the opportunity for a
28:30 future, a second chance, something you so wrongfully and cruelly denied to
28:35 Anna Creasel."
28:37 Geraldine gave a victim impact statement during the sentencing.
28:44 "She was wild and wonderful, electric, so full of fun, madness and laughter.
28:50 We could not believe the happiness and joy we had found in our lives.
28:54 She was the love of our lives and every single night before she went to bed,
28:58 she told us she loved us too.
29:00 She cannot do that anymore and we cannot tell you how badly it hurts.
29:05 She was just a little girl, with so many hopes and dreams and so much love
29:10 inside her, that she shared generously with all who knew her.
29:16 Her dream was to build a hotel called the Anna Love Hotel. She drew detailed
29:20 floor plans and we, her parents, would have had a special cottage on the land
29:24 where we could spend our holidays and be near her. Her plans, our future,
29:29 shattered."
29:31 In her victim impact statement, Geraldine noted that Anna was due to meet her
29:35 two younger sisters for the first time this year, but she never got the chance.
29:40 Geraldine said that when Anna's birth family had found out what had happened
29:44 to her, they cried and cried. She said, "They will never feel her warm hugs and
29:50 loving kisses, or see her dance so elegantly, or hear her infectious laughter,
29:55 and we will never experience that joy again."
29:58 We would like to express our extreme gratitude to Mark O'Neill and his team
30:12 at Garda Síochána, who put everything they had into finding those responsible
30:16 for Anna's murder. Siobhán McIntyre, our liaison officer, for holding the family
30:21 up through all of this pain. Brendan and the legal team, the jury and the judge.
30:27 The media for being so understanding. The victim support unit, our family,
30:33 our friends and our neighbours. And thank you to all of the wonderful people
30:38 out there that supported us and kept us going.
30:42 Justice has been served for Anna. The judge has decided on the sentence,
30:53 and that duty lies within law. For our part, we can only say that forever is not long enough.
31:06 Please remember Anna and keep her in your hearts, somewhere.
31:13 The boys are currently being held in Oberstown Detention Centre in North Dublin.
31:27 When they turn 18 they will be transferred to an adult prison to continue their sentences.
31:32 In May 2020 it was reported that boy A, aged 15 at the time, was assaulted by fellow inmates
31:38 and had suffered minor injuries as a result. Boy A and boy B will be offered new identities
31:44 if they are released. During the sentencing it emerged that in his psychiatric evaluations
31:50 boy A admitted to causing Anna's death, but denied the sexual assault.
31:55 Boy B continues to maintain his innocence and rejects the verdict of the jury.
32:00 Following her murder, her family were determined to turn the horrific experience into something
32:05 positive and so set up a charity in her honour, ANA. It was set up with the Russian-Irish
32:12 adoption group to help other teenagers. Whilst we may never know the motivations for her murder,
32:19 we know for sure that Anna was deeply loved, and someone who loved deeply in return,
32:25 and despite all that she had been through, showed an incredible strength.
32:30 The following words were written by Anna at the start of secondary school, when asked
32:34 what her hopes were for her future.
32:37 My hopes for the future. I hoped I would get into secondary school, and I did.
32:42 That is one goal down. My second hope is to go to Paris University like my dad,
32:47 the hardest one to get into. And when I come home from Paris I would like to get a dog.
32:53 I would like to get married too. Not sure I want any babies. Well, not yet anyway.
32:59 I hope that I have a good life.
33:02 [Music]