Murder trial evidence ‘like strands of rope’

THE prosecution in a murder trial has told the jury it can use evidence of motive, DNA and mobile phone use together to convict the defendant of murder.

Colm O’Briain BL was closing the case for the state in the trial of a 31-year-old Dublin man charged with murdering another Dublin man in 2007.

Michael Taylor, of Summerhill, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Paul Kelly at Winston Ville apartments, Charlemont Road, Clontarf, where Mr Kelly was staying.