Two thugs who lured Keane Mulready Woods to his gruesome death twisted the knife for his grieving family and laughed as they were led from court.
Paul Crosby, 27, and Gerard Cruise, 49, got a combined 17 years for their part in the sickening slaughter of the Drogheda teen.
The twisted pair could be seen laughing as they were brought to the holding cell, with one overheard bragging: “We got off lightly.”
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A source said: “It really is an insult to their victim’s family. They were in convulsions because they seemed to think they were going to get longer sentences. It really is an insult to their victim’s family.”
Keane was just 17 when he was lured to a house in Rathmullen estate in Drogheda between January 11 and 13, 2020.
Serial criminal Crosby, who has more than 40 convictions, met Keane on the day he went missing and they got into a car driven by Cruise.
The two also bought a van in which bone fragments belonging to the butchered teenager were found.
He was murdered and his body dismembered by slain serial killer Robbie Lawlor using a drill and other implements.
The maximum each man could have faced was 15 years imprisonment. Crosby was jailed for ten years and Cruise got seven.
A source told the Irish Sunday Mirror: “Crosby and Cruise could be seen laughing and joking after getting sentenced.
“They were in convulsions laughing because they seemed to think they were going to get longer sentences.
“In their eyes they probably think that 10 years and seven years is a short sentence.
“They will probably get out in seven and a half years and five years after remission is taken into consideration.”
Passing sentence at the Special Criminal Court Mr Justice Tony Hunt said the pair “must have had some knowledge of the capacities of the person they were assisting”.
He added: “It was a heinous and appalling crime and Keane’s remains were treated in a disgraceful and inhumane way that beggars belief and compounds his family’s grief.”
Keane was reported missing by his mother Elizabeth at 4pm on Monday January 13, 2020.
Later that evening a sports bag containing his severed arms and legs was thrown from a Volvo car into a housing estate in Coolock, Dublin.
Two days later the teenager’s head, hands and feet were found in the boot of the burning Volvo in Trinity Terrace in Dublin.
On March 10 Keane’s skeletal torso was discovered in a Puma sports bag following a search of waste ground in Rathmullen.
Cruise told gardai he was asked by Crosby to help dispose of Keane’s remains but he declined, even when he was offered money.
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