Deliberation to begin in case of Tipperary farmer charged with murdering part-time DJ
Mr Ryan went missing on June 3rd, 2011 after leaving his girlfriend Mary Lowry’s home at about 6.30am. His body was found in an underground run-off tank on the farm owned by Ms Lowry and leased by the accused at Fawnagown, Tipperary 22 months later in April 2013.
She said the onus of proof remained fairly and squarely on the prosecution and that the defence did not have to prove a thing. It was the prosecution’s case, Ms Justice Creedon said, that Bobby Ryan was violently assaulted immediately after he left Mary Lowry’s house and placed into the tank by Patrick Quirke.
They further relied on an A4 sheet found in Patrick Quirke’s home and what was written on that sheet, according to experts, Ms Justice Creedon said. Ms Justice Creedon said the prosecution draws all of this evidence together and contrasts it with what they say are lies told by Mr Quirke, in his garda interviews, to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that he murdered Bobby Ryan. The prosecution contends that any other conclusion is not rational.The defence, on the other hand, contend that the evidence was insufficient to prove murder beyond a reasonable doubt, and was more consistent with innocence, Ms Justice Creedon told the jury.
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