DJ Bobby Ryan's death was 'callous murder' and only verdict is to find Patrick Quirke guilty, State lawyers claim
Bobby Ryan’s death was “callous, calculated, controlled murder” and the only verdict available is to find Patrick Quirke guilty, State lawyers said on Friday.Quirke, of Breanshamore, Co Tipperary, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of 52-year-old Mr Ryan.
Delivering his closing speech at Dublin’s Central Criminal Court, Michael Bowman said for a guilty verdict, he must rule out any rational theory that would be consistent with Quirke’s innocence. The same man who reported Ms Lowry for child neglect. The same man, Mr Bowman went on, who claimed Ms Lowry wanted to forgive him a €20,000 debt while she insisted that was not true.
The defendant, he said, was one of only four people who knew of the existence of the tank – in which the body was found – and he hadHe added: “Bobby Ryan was murdered by somebody possessed of information and knowledge possessed only by Patrick Quirke. He said the evidence presented was “grasping” and that the prosecution had adopted the approach of “so what” to issues such as the absence of former Deputy State Pathologist Dr Khalid when the body was removed from the tank.
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