This is the first picture of a Dublin man who admitted to brutally murdering his brother with a claw hammer after he “just snapped.”
Gary Murtagh, 48, was jailed for life for beating his younger brother Paul to death with a claw hammer at their Phibsborough home in 2020. Murtagh was jailed on Monday after last week, when he suddenly changed his plea to guilty to the murder of Paul (42) at Auburn Street in Dublin on November 6 of that year.
Murtagh was caught after gardai recovered a body cam from the victim, who had been struck with the claw hammer 50 times. The footage revealed that Gary had struck his brother with the hammer in a fit of rage - with him later admitting to gardai that he “just snapped, thinking about everything over the years”.
