TWO MEN and a 17-year-old male were charged yesterday with the murder of a man who died after he was attacked in Coolock, Dublin, last October.
Lukasz Rzeszutko (27), a Polish national, who had been on his way to work at a fish processing plant, was attacked at the Newtown Industrial Estate in Coolock in the early hours of October 2nd last. He died two days later at Beaumont Hospital.
Martin Morgan (20) of Tonlegee Road, Raheny, and Edward Byrne (20) from Coolock, but who had an address at a YMCA hostel in Dublin 8, had been charged earlier with assault causing harm to Mr Rzeszutko.
However, at the Dublin District Court yesterday, the charges were upgraded to murder.
Det Garda Niall Gibbs told Judge Denis McLoughlin that Mr Byrne was arrested yesterday morning. Det Sgt David Carroll told the court Mr Morgan was also arrested yesterday morning and that he made no reply to caution.
Judge McLoughlin remanded the pair in custody for one week.
A few minutes later, at the Dublin Children’s Court, in Smithfield, the 17-year-old co-accused, whose name cannot be published because he is a juvenile, appeared before Judge Clare Leonard.
Garda Brian Healy said the Dublin teenager was charged at Coolock Garda station at 10.17am yesterday with murder. The youth made no reply after caution, Judge Leonard was told. The teenager was remanded in custody to appear again on a date next week.