Man struck twice on head with baseball bat, court told
Zoltan Almasi, 44, with an address at Harbour View, Naas, Co Kildare, is charged with murdering Joseph (JoJo) Dunne at the same address on May 16, 2014.
On Monday at the Central Criminal Court, Mr Almasi pleaded not guilty to murdering Mr Dunne.
Yesterday, prosecution counsel Bernard Condon SC called Alana Piercy. The 19-year-old, who was living in Naas in 2014, told the court and her friend met up with three men, including Mr Dunne, in Naas that day.
“I was walking ahead and the others were behind us. I saw a white van parked outside a garden. As I was making my way home I heard shouting. I saw Mickey and Gavin running around the corner and a man with a baseball bat,” she said.
The court heard the man with the baseball bat firstly hit Mr Dunne on the back and he fell to the ground.
“When he fell to the ground the man hit him again on the side or back of the head,” she said.
Ms Piercy described the man holding the baseball bat as “small, skinny with baldy hair and glasses”.
In cross examination defence counsel Colm O’Briain SC asked the witness if she recalled telling a garda that Mr Dunne was only hit once. “He wasn’t hit once,” said Ms Piercy.
Detective Garda Niall Lennon, a member of the Garda Technical Bureau,
told the court
he took possession of a baseball bat from a house at Harbour View. He carried out an examination for finger marks and palm marks but with negative results. The trial continues.
