09/11/2007

State Case Concludes In Nightclub Bouncer Murder Trial

Dublin's Central Criminal Court has now finished hearing the prosecution case against four men accused of the murder of a Limerick nightclub security man.

The trial entered legal argument this afternoon and will continue tomorrow before Mr Justice Peter Charleton ant the jury of 12 men at the Central Criminal Court sitting at Cloverhill.

On trial are Gary Campion of Moyross, John and Desmond Dundon from Ballinacurra Weston and Clare businessman Anthony Kelly, who has an address at Kilrush.

They have all pleaded not guilty to murdering Brian Fitzgerald on November 29th 2002 at Brookhaven Walk, Mill Road, Corbally, Limerick.

Over the last 12 days of evidence the court heard the state's case, mainly through the evidence of the man currently serving a life sentence for shooting Mr Fitzgerald, James Martin Cahill.

(BMcC)


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