A 16-year-old boy has been found guilty of the murder of a 49-year-old woman on her way home from work in Dublin city centre last year.
The boy who cannot be named because of his age, pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to the manslaughter of Urantsetseg Tserendorj on 29 January 2021.
However, the prosecution case was that he repeatedly lashed out at her with a knife in a callous, unprovoked and vicious act of thuggery intended to cause an injury. The court heard Ms Tserendorj, who was also known as Urna, was originally from Mongolia. Her husband travelled to Ireland to work 15 years ago and she followed nine months later. They made Ireland their home and both worked as cleaners. They had a son and a daughter.
The jury was told that after 9.30pm Ms Tserendoorj’s husband received a phone call from her in which she was in distress and told him"I’m dying, please hurry". He met her at a taxi rank near Connolly station. She was holding her neck and had a wound just under her ear, which was bleeding but did not appear to be particularly big or significant.
A post-mortem examination revealed a neck wound below her right ear and her death was caused by a lack of oxygen to her brain. He told them he panicked and pulled a knife out of his pocket. He said he stabbed the woman in the neck and didn’t mean to do it.
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