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Funeral ‘honour killing’ as ‘tragic as it was stupid’, State tells murder trial jury
Five family members and a teenager used “medieval violence” to “butcher” father of seven in “an honour killing” during a Co Kerry funeral, carrying out a “biblical atrocity” that was “tragic and heartbreaking as it was ridiculous and stupid”, a prosecution barrister has told a Central Criminal Court jury.
Dean Kelly SC, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, today gave his closing speech in the trial of six murder accused at a sitting of the court in Cork, submitting that “honour” had been offended when a relationship between the daughter of the deceased Thomas ‘Tom’ Dooley and one of the accused men had “broken down”.
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