Defence counsel in the trial of six people charged with the murder of 42-year-old father of seven Thomas Dooley have challenged the prosecution's categorisation of the case as an honour killing.
Defence counsel in the trial of six people charged with the murder of 42-year-old father of seven Thomas Dooley have challenged the prosecution's categorisation of the case as an honour killing.The trial, at the Central Criminal Court in Cork, was in its 25th day today.
Today, senior counsel Tom Creed, for Thomas Dooley senior, described as"dog whistle rhetoric" the prosecution categorisation of the case as an honour killing. "This is not a simple case - it is not as simple as the prosecution is portraying it," Mr Creed said. He said it was an impossibility for his client to have had the time to enter the graveyard, make it to where the injuries were inflicted on Thomas and Siobhán Dooley and leave the cemetery in the timeframe shown on the footage.
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