A violent criminal has lost an appeal against his conviction for murdering 17-year-old Daniel McAnaspie, whose body was found in a farm drainage ditch three months after he was stabbed to death.
The appeal brings to an end a 12-year saga since Daniel, who was an orphan and was in the care of the HSE, went missing in February 2010.
Richard Dekker first went on trial accused of Daniel's murder in 2013 but was acquitted by direction of the trial judge who said there was a lack of evidence.
