Murder-accused remanded

BOLA SHITTABEY, mother of Toyosi Shittabey, outside Blanchardstown courthouse yesterday, where two brothers charged with Toyosi…

BOLA SHITTABEY, mother of Toyosi Shittabey, outside Blanchardstown courthouse yesterday, where two brothers charged with Toyosi's murder were remanded in custody in advance of High Court bail hearings, writes Fiona Gartland.

Paul Barry (38), Pearse Street, Dublin, and his brother Michael Barry (23), Pigeon House Road, Ringsend, were charged with the murder of the 15-year-old.

The schoolboy from Tyrrelstown, who was a third- year student at Hartstown Community School, was killed in west Dublin last April.

He died from a stab wound to the chest.

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He had been on his way back from the National Aquatic Centre with friends on Good Friday when the incident that led to his death took place.

Yesterday more than a dozen friends of the schoolboy waited outside the court while the brief hearing took place.

Inside, family members watched quietly while Judge Brian Sheridan remanded the two men in custody at Cloverhill Prison with consent to bail.

The court heard that High Court bail hearings for the brothers were planned for next Monday.