Jury shown shotgun in teenager’s killing trial

A murder trial has heard that teenager Melanie McCarthy McNamara was bleeding profusely from her skull when she arrived at hospital after being gunned down in Tallaght two years ago.

The jury was also shown the shotgun that gardaí found shortly after the 16-year-old was shot in the head as she sat in a car with her boyfriend and his friend.

Daniel McDonnell of Brookview Lawns in Tallaght is on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with murdering the teenager at Brookview Way.