Mark Crawford pleaded not guilty to murder, but unanimous jury rejected his claim that he acted in self-defence in 2018
Patrick ‘Pa’ O’Connor by stabbing him six times, piercing his heart and neck, at Fitzgerald’s Bar on Sexton Street in Limerick on July 7th or 8th, 2018.
The common law position, as set out in the 1972 judgment, sets out that to avail of the partial defence of self-defence, the force used by the accused must be objectively reasonable “in the circumstances as they were” and not as they were perceived by the accused, she said. It is available as a complete defence where a person has an honest belief that the circumstances necessitate the use of force and uses such force as is objectively as well as subjectively reasonable in the circumstance that the accused believed them to be, she said. The belief may be unreasonably held but it must be an honest belief.
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