Ana Kriegel - Boys A & B found guilty [Mod: Do NOT post identifying information]

That screwdriver killer scumbag was apparently drinking and taking drugs all day. He was provoked and amplified by having heard his father was in a row.
there was an altercation which finished in 2 young foreign me being brutally stabbed in the head with one blow! he should have the key thrown away but you can see how drink, drugs and generally being a dirt bag, were factors.

Now cut to these two..No drink...No drugs.. No call to arms in effort to aid a friend, sibling etc, so no real rush of blood to the head! They planned all of this and what's more, carried it out to completion.. inflicting over 50 injuries, any of which could have killed her, not to mention everything that happened after.
what they did was actually worse as they're younger and yet showed more hatred and evil towards a young girl than anyone would ever see in any film.

A so called child would lose the nerve maybe at the point when Ana showed. This is horrendous on an international scale, they're not children at all. Even when you skip an ATM que, it feels bad cos you know it's wrong. the judge will convict, the public will move on and with the passage of time, they'll be out in ten years easily because he's retired and the new guy is familiar with but not interested in seeing it followed through.

So many heart punches while reading Conor Gallagher's summation of the case and trying to focus on the mindset of the murderers and the victim, but reading about Ana the person gives you a glimpse of just what was lost...

The Irish Times wrote:

We can say a lot more about Ana Kriégel. Her mother said she was a girl who loved to dance. She was part of the Leixlip based troupe Dance LA, whose members, decked in red headscarves and silver sequins formed a guard of honour at her funeral. Ana “spent hours in our front room, listening to music, practising her moves,” her mother said.

We can say Ana was a great singer and wanted to learn how to play guitar. We can say her Siberian strength and height made her an incredible swimmer. We can say that she loved to volunteer for things and shortly before her death Ana agreed to model in a fashion show organised by older classmates to raise money for charity.

Ana never lost touch with her Russian roots. A Russian flag and a matryoshka doll were placed on her coffin. Geraldine and Patric had announced their adoption of Ana in 2006 by handing their friends a similar doll containing her picture.

We can say she also loved her holidays to France, symbolised by the presence of a miniature Eiffel Tower on her coffin.

And we can say Ana loved her family dearly and was loved dearly in return. We can say she was someone who, as her funeral heard, was never happier than when she was curled up with her mother on a Sunday “watching some beautiful fairytale princess movie while munching her favourite food, popcorn”.

Creative, a singer, dancer, swimmer, tall and aerobic, outgoing, already had a fondness for international travel, was much loved and supported by her parents - She had as bright a future ahead of her as she wanted, the world was her oyster, once she got through some really tough formative years in 'the schoolyard'.

It's a modern worry and growing problem that school-related bullying now goes well beyond the schoolyard. FFS, even before she went into 1st year, Ana already had 3rd year students bullying her online. Hopefully Ana's plight brings this wholly toxic mixture of the old (bullying) and the new (social media) into national light and discourse where it can be addressed and looked towards dealing with.

Now, one can say that we we've always lived in harsh times, and modern Ireland is built on the blood of those who died in a relatively recent civil war and the even more recent Troubles, so no I'm not saying at all that the country is going to fúck lately. However, there was a very fúcked up two weeks in our recent history with three random violent murders to young people in May 2018 - Ana Kriégel, Cameron Reilly and Jastine Valdez.

Not to take anything away from the plights of other victims of tragedies, murders and avoidable suicides (those poor Gallagher sisters and family in Donegal for example) but those three murders in such a short time-span really rang out to me at the time and I've kept up with any progress in their cases since then. Two of those victims were lured to their ends and the other was abducted. Thankfully justice has been served in two out of three, and there is a suspect going to trial soon for the third.

Still, someday it would be nice to know the 'How?' behind such cases. How can young people commit such violent acts? How is there not a moment where a conscience and inner voice screams to you "Wait...WTF am I doing here?" How are these kids so desensitised to extreme violence and devoid of the notion of empathy or consequence? How can they have a "murder kit" and a plan to use it on anyone let alone someone who did them no harm?

Outside of all the above - Our Gardai as an organisation have no shortage of negative headlines and opinion in this day and age, but when they're very good they are the best. Thinking back to the Graham Dwyer case and how that was solved, looking at the work they did to get Ana's murderers brought to justice here. Not just the detectives in high profile cases, I myself needed some minor assistance recently and rank and file officers were on the scene well within 10 minutes.

This is the most tragic and possibly most horrific murder case I've read about within my lifetime in Ireland. I really hope Ana didn't go through all that torment and bullying and then meet such a gruesome and lonely end for nothing. I know that we can't force all of our kids to be friends with all other kids and love everyone else equally, but surely there has to be some way to minimise bullying and promote empathy. The 'Sure it happens, what can you do?' approach isn't working with bullying. That's the way it was handled when I was a kid back in the 80s/90s, and likely long before I was a kid as well. It isn't working, and in recent years you now have cases like Ana and the Gallagher sisters in Donegal who were plagued night and day beyond the schoolyard courtesy of social media. It has to be time to at least talk about a different way to tackle this.

RIP Ana Kriégel.