An English jury yesterday found a music student guilty of raping and murdering schoolboy Wesley Neailey (11).
After the verdict at Newcastle Crown Court, it emerged that Dominic McKilligan had a previous conviction for gross indecent assault against four boys in his home town of Bournemouth, for which he had served a three-year supervision order.
Due to the timing of his previous conviction, McKilligan missed being added to the sex offenders' register by just a day.
The jury took two hours and 50 minutes to find the student guilty of the offences committed in June last year. The jury had heard that McKilligan had befriended the boy and lured him to his garage where he made sexual advances and then killed him with a blow to the head with a wrench.