Dermot Phelan has pleaded not guilty to murdering father-of-four Keith Conlon in Tallaght in 2022
Diarmuid Phelan, law professor, has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to the murder of a man in Tallaght, Co Dublin. Photograph: Diverhoyt / Wikipiedia Creative Commons licenceThe jury in the trial of a law professor who is accused of murdering a trespasser on his farm has been sent home for a second day, having been told by the judge that there is a “difficulty” as the next prosecution witness is unavailable.
Addressing the 12 jurors at the Central Criminal Court on Friday morning, Ms Justice Siobhan Lankford said: “We have a difficulty today, the next prosecution witness is not available to the court today and we are not in a position to proceed with the evidence because of that”. On Thursday, Ms Justice Lankford sent the jury away until this morning, telling the 12 members of the panel that for reasons outside of her control there was no work for them.
The 12 jurors were also told by the State that Mr Phelan said he was shaking with fear and “scrambled” up a bank to get away but when the deceased man Keith Conlon and a second man kept coming he believed they were “coming to fulfil the threats they had made”. Mr Conlon, from Kiltalown Park in Tallaght, was seriously injured in the shooting incident on February 22 and died at Tallaght University Hospital two days later.
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