Murderer who claimed gardai had confession "agenda" fails in appeal

Bryan Ryan, aged 31 and from Louisburgh in County Mayo, has failed in his appeal against a murder conviction at the Court of Appeal. Ryan was convicted in 2013 of murdering Ian Tobin at Fortlawn Park in Blanchardstown on May 27, 2007. A Central Criminal Court jury returned a majority guilty verdict, and he was sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment in March 2013. The appeal, heard in December 2015, centred on…