Counsel for Patrick Quirke urges jury to be wary of Mary Lowry’s evidence
Bobby Ryan’s death was “callous, calculated, controlled murder” and the only verdict available is to find Patrick Quirke guilty of murder, lawyers for the State have told the Central Criminal Court.
The prosecution has claimed Mr Quirke murdered Mr Ryan so he could rekindle an affair with Ms Lowry . Was it bad luck, Mr Bowman asked, that after being seen on CCTV at Ms Lowry’s house on December 3rd, 2012 somebody in the Quirke household is on the internet at 3.36pm that afternoon looking for “human body decomposition timeline” and that his computer cache shows that a website relating to human decomposition was visited in July 2012.
In interviews he revealed, Mr Bowman said, that he knew the exact depth of the sludge in the bottom of the tank – one foot – and the approximate depth of the tank at five feet. This was something that could only be known, counsel said, by someone who had gotten into that tank. He said they must approach the trial coldly and dispassionately, like a scientist, and must start from the point that Mr Quirke is innocent.
He said Mr Bowman had told the jury they could be clear on the time when Mr Ryan died but Mr Condon said “nothing could be further from the truth”.
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