Extradited murderer apologises to dissident republican's family

Dean Evans, aged 27 and from Raheny in Dublin, received a mandatory life sentence at the Special Criminal Court on 31 July 2018 following his guilty plea to the murder of Peter Butterly. Mr Butterly, a 35-year-old dissident republican, was fatally shot outside The Huntsman Inn near Gormanstown, County Meath on 6 March 2013. Evans had absconded before his trial was scheduled to commence in January 2017. He was…