Two men have been jailed for life for the murder of a French man in Bray, Co Wicklow, two years ago.
Charles Sinapayen was shot through the bedroom window of his apartment at Richmond Hill in Bray while he slept on 29 May 2009.
The 33-year-old street entertainer had been living in Bray for a number of years. The trial heard the motive for the murder was unclear.
Declan Sheridan, 25, of Sea Road in Kilcoole, and James O Connor, 27, of Kilbridge Grove in Bray, had denied the murder.
The jury found them guilty of murder by unanimous verdict.
Mr Sinapayen, who was a musician and juggler and had lived in Bray for several years, was shot through the bedroom window of the apartment he shared with his girlfriend Mary Kinlan.
He sustained a gunshot wound to the side of his face which lacerated his brain and fractured his skull, and died two days later in Beaumont Hospital.
Counsel for the State, Ms Úna Ní Raifeartaigh SC, told the jury during the trial that the motive for the 'brutal' and 'callous' murder of Charles Sinapayen was unclear.
In a Victim Impact Statement, which was read aloud to the court by Ms Ni Raifeartaigh, Mr Sinapayen's mother Marie Claire outlined how her life had become a 'living nightmare' since the murder of her son.
She described Charles as a 'maverick, non-conformist and happy-go-lucky' person who was nice to everybody he met and liked to make people laugh.
Mr Sinapayen's brother, Julian, said that he felt a 'surge of anger' towards his brother's killers and although he wanted justice to be done, he did not know if it would bring him peace.
His younger brother, John, said Charles's murder was the 'worst thing' that happened to the Sinapayen family and that he 'wished' for justice to be enacted so that the killers and their families could 'suffer' as his own family had done.
The State argued that O'Connor and Sheridan, who have both suffered with heroin addiction in the past, went to the Mr Sinapayen's apartment in the early hours of 29 May 2009, where they fired two blasts from a shotgun through the window.
It was the prosecution case that the accused men were then driven to a local cemetery where they disposed of the shotgun, cartridges, clothes and shoes.
The jury heard evidence from key prosecution witness Keith Lowe, who said he drove O'Connor and a second man to Richmond Hill on the evening in question.
Evidence was also before the court that DNA matching that of Declan Sheridan, who has 34 previous convictions, was present on a shotgun cartridge and a Puma tracksuit top recovered by gardaí in a cemetery close to the scene of the shooting.
Forensic scientist Dr Linda Williams told the court that DNA found on a pair of Nike runners and a Jack & Jones brand jacket found at the cemetery also had traces of DNA matching that of James O'Connor, who has 41 previous convictions, including two for assault on a garda.
