The jury took just over three hours to return the verdict
A jury has this afternoon taken just over three hours to find a man guilty of murdering mother-of-two Lisa Thompson, who was strangled and stabbed to death in her own home.
Evidence was heard that Ms Thompson - who was stabbed 11 times in the chest - was dealing prescription drugs from her home. and that she and the accused Brian McHugh had a "bit of a fling" in the year before she died. The trial had also heard that gardai searching Ms Thompson's home found thousands of prescription tablets worth nearly €50,000 hidden in her attic.
Ms Thompson died because of a combination of ligature strangulation causing asphyxia and multiple stab wounds to the left side of the chest. However in her closing speech, Fiona Murphy SC said the prosecution had "meticulously presented a tapestry of circumstantial evidence", where each thread had been interwoven, painting a "compelling picture" of Mr McHugh's guilt.
A forensic scientist has told the trial that the blind cord contained a mixed DNA profile for which Mr McHugh could not be excluded as a minor contributor.
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