In the early hours of 31 August 2000, Brian Murphy, an 18-year-old student, was attacked by a large group of young men outside the Club Anabel nightclub at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, Ireland.

[2] A post mortem examination by the state pathologist, John Harbison, found the cause of death to be cerebral oedema and inhalation of blood due to multiple facial injuries consistent with a significant assault.

A retrial was ordered in Laide's case over the manslaughter charge, but in 2006 a nolle prosequi (no prosecution) was entered by the State due to "ongoing evidential difficulties".

[7][8][9] The inquest into the case concluded in 2007 with a jury at Dublin City Coroner's Court unanimously determining the death to be the result of unlawful killing secondary to head injuries.

[4] Writer Kevin Power won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for his 2009 début novel Bad Day in Blackrock, inspired in part by the Murphy incident.