Prosecution begins closing speech in trial of senior counsel who denies murdering Keith Conlon in February 2022
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has been told they should be satisfied the evidence shows that law professor Diarmuid Phelan is guilty of the murder of a trespasser on his farm.
Hannah Felgner , a student from Germany, had said her recollection was that Mr Conlon had his back to Mr Phelan when the accused shot him in the head, counsel said. She recalled the gunshot coming as a “complete surprise” because she perceived the situation immediately prior to that as a “verbal” conflict between Mr Phelan, Mr Conlon and Mr Coleman.
“Keith Conlon is not on trial for the morality of bolting foxes or blooding dogs or badger baiting,” she said, adding that the jury might feel the same about “tweed-jacketed men and women” riding horses and chasing foxes. On the very morning of the fatal shooting, she said, two men were fixing the farm gate which had been criminally damaged. She asked if Mr Phelan had “simply had enough” by that afternoon and “reached the end of his tether”.
Ms Lacey has begun closing the case for the prosecution in the trial of Mr Phelan , who has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Mr Conlon at Hazlegrove farm, Kiltalown Lane, Tallaght, on February 24th, 2022. Mr Conlon, a father of four, was pronounced brain-dead at Tallaght hospital two days after he was shot.
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