Dean Caffrey (38) has pleaded not guilty to murder of McCarthy (28) at his Drumcondra apartment
Dean Caffrey has pleaded not guilty to murder of McCarthy at his Drumcondra apartmentThe body of a man who was found inside a partially zipped up suitcase in a wardrobe in a Drumcondra apartment was covered in bubble wrap with a plastic bag around his head, the Central Criminal Court has heard.
When Dr Collis removed the wrappings, she found the body was “quite badly decomposed”, in keeping with the suggestion that Mr McCarthy had died four days before being found. She sent the body to the Mater hospital for a CT scan which revealed a bullet lodged in the back of the skull. The pathologist also noted a single gunshot entry wound above the left eyebrow.
The cause of death, she said, was a gunshot wound to the head with no other contributing factors. The bullet damaged brain structures but would not have caused instant death because it did not damage the brainstem, she said. She also said she couldn’t assist regarding the trajectory of the bullet other than to say it entered at the forehead and travelled to the back of the skull. The laceration and fracture to the nose, she said, could have been caused before death but might also have occurred after death, while the body was being moved.
In her opening speech to the jury, prosecution counsel Cathleen Noctor said Mr Caffrey told gardaí that he had owed money for drugs to a third party but the debt was transferred to Mr McCarthy.
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