Tomas Cypas at Blanchardstown District Court in 2024: the judge will impose the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment to Cypas on March 23rd. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins

A scaffolder who meted out a “volley of violence” on a defenceless “drunken bowsie” in response to his mother being insulted with lewd requests for sex has been found guilty of murder by a Central Criminal Court jury.

The panel of eight men and four women took six hours and 54 minutes over three days to reject the defence case by a majority verdict of 10 to two, finding that this was not an unlawful killing bu

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