Michael Lynn SC said Lorenzo Cantaragiu’s time in prison has been “particularly difficult” and there have been threats to him and to his family.

The trial heard that Doroscan and Clejan beat Mr Ilyas by stamping on him, kicking him, and striking his head with a hammer at an apartment in Blanchardstown in Dublin.

Lorenzo Cantaragiu drove Mr Ilyas’s murderers Viorel Doroscan (23) and Otrniel Richardo Clejan (24) to a wooded area in Co Meath where the two killers left Mr Ilyas (22) for dead.

Two men have been found guilty of the murder of 22-year-old Mahamud Ilyas

Viorel Doroscan (23), and Otniel Richardo Clejan (24), have pleaded not guilty to the murder of Mahamud Ilyas on December 9th, 2022.

Two men have pleaded not guilty to the murder of Mahamud Ilyas on December 9th, 2022.

Garda Dermot Sloane told the jury that the two figures carried “a red object” containing the deceased to the car that was parked at apartments in Verdemont in Blanchardstown.