Farmer Patrick Quirke has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Bobby Ryan in 2011.
Farmer Patrick Quirke arriving at the Dublin Central Criminal Court Image: RollingNews.ie Farmer Patrick Quirke arriving at the Dublin Central Criminal Court Image: RollingNews.ie THE EVIDENCE AGAINST murder accused Patrick Quirke amounts to no more than suspicion and is not enough to convince a jury that he killed Bobby Ryan, a defence barrister has told the love rival murder trial at the Central Criminal Court.
The jury will return next Tuesday 23 April to hear the judge’s charge from Justice Eileen Creedon before they begin their deliberations. He asked the jury to look fairly and with nuance at the evidence that Quirke’s computer was used to search for information on DNA and “human body decomposition” while Ryan was still a missing person.
He noted that in interview that Quirke had referenced his deceased son when asked about the decomposition searches. Condon said it may be “macabre” but people do the strangest things on their computers. Counsel called on the jury to start from the position that Quirke is innocent and to imagine themselves or a person they love in his position having done what he can to assist gardaí and having had everything he said interpreted in the worst possible way. To be accused based on what Mary Lowry said and a couple of internet searches. He concluded: “I ask you to acquit this man.
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