Cell graffiti allegedly bragged of murder

A jury has been told that the teenager charged with murdering 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy McNamara allegedly bragged about shooting her in graffiti on his cell wall.

A prosecutor told his trial, while being investigated for her killing two years ago, Daniel McDonnell wrote on his cell wall: “Two in the head. Your bitch is dead.”

Mr McDonnell, of Brookview Lawns, Tallaght, went on trial at the Central Criminal Court yesterday, charged with murdering the teen. She was shot in the head as she sat in the back seat of a car at Brookview Way in Tallaght.