The Court of Appeal has dismissed an application by Boy B to include fresh evidence in his appeal against his conviction for murder of schoolgirl Ana Kriégel.
In 2019, a jury unanimously agreed Boy B was guilty of murdering the 14-year-old girl and he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Boy B, who was one of two teenagers found guilty of murdering Ana Kriégel in 2018, is appealing that conviction and his new defence team applied to introduce fresh psychological evidence in that appeal.
They produced two reports by psychologists which found the Garda questioning of the then-13-year-old boy was inappropriate and inadequate.
Boy B was questioned on eight occasions surrounding Ana’s murder and changed his story multiple times.
He claims the last interview, in which he is an eyewitness but not a perpetrator of the crime, was an accurate recalling of events.
Mr Justice George Birmingham dismissed the application today, describing it as “radical”.
He said the two psychologists had never met the boy and that the application was nowhere near the threshold that’s needed to introduce new evidence to an appeal.
