Ana murder accused remanded
A SECOND 13-year-old boy charged with the murder of Kildare schoolgirl Ana Kriegel has been further remanded in custody pending the preparation of a book of evidence.
The boy, who cannot be named because he is a minor, is accused of the murder of Ana, 14, at Glenwood House, Laraghcon, Clonee Road, Lucan, Dublin, on May 14.
He has been held in custody at the Oberstown detention centre in north Dublin since July 12, when he was charged.
He faced his third hearing before Judge John O’Connor at Dublin Children’s Court yesterday.
The teenager was accompanied to court by his solicitor and his parents for the brief hearing, at which he was remanded in continuing custody to appear again on August 14 next. A book of evidence is being prepared by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
At the boy’s first hearing on July 12, Detective Sergeant Damien Gannon gave evidence of the teenager’s arrest at the boy’s home that morning and of him being charged at Lucan Garda Station.
He had said the boy ‘made no reply to the charge after caution’.
Special directions, necessary due to the boy’s age, had been obtained from the DPP, the court had been told. Due to the nature of the charge, the Children’s Court does not have jurisdiction to rule on the issue of bail.
Ana, born Anastasia and adopted from Russia at the age of two, left her house in Leixlip at about 5pm on May 14, but did not come home and gardaí were alerted.
Her body was found at the disused farmhouse three days later.
The boy’s co-accused, also aged 13, had already been remanded in custody on May 25. He was the first to be charged with her murder. Bail terms, however, were set by the High Court for this teenager on Monday, and he is due to appear again at the Children’s Court later this week. There has been no indication yet as to how either boy intends to plead.