Cailean Crawford to be sentenced to mandatory period of life in prison later this month for killing Thomas McCarthy
Garda members investigating after Thomas McCarthy was shot dead on July 27th, 2020 at Croftwood Park, Ballyfermot. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish TimesA man stormed out of the dock in the Central Criminal Court and shouted “f**k you and your fair trial” after a jury on Tuesday convicted him of murdering a grandfather who was shot in west Dublin more than four years ago.
Fine Gael lays out condition for coalition deal with Fianna Fáil as counting finishes in Election 2024The jury agreed with the State’s case that Crawford was the person who fired several times, fatally injuring Mr McCarthy, after arriving to the scene in a blue Ford Fiesta which was captured driving in and out on CCTV.
He told the jury that as a result of their verdict, “the good people of Ballyfermot”, whom they had heard Crawford “slur” in the witness box, will be able to “live free of him for some time”. The jurors rejected the defence case that Crawford, last of Clifden Terrace, Ballyfermot, was involved in drug dealing and had loaned a phone and a GoVan he had hired on the morning of the killing to associate Charles McClean.
Mr Condon said it was the prosecution case that a group of people were involved in planning and carrying out Mr McCarthy’s murder, with a number of cars, purchased using false names, used.
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