Mahon had ‘no motive’ to harm stab death stepson

David Mahon’s counsel has told his trial jury that his client had no motive to kill his stepson, but every reason not to harm him, due to his love for Dean Fitzpatrick’s mother.

Sean Guerin suggested that the cause of Mr Fitzpatrick’s death was self-impalement and that the jury would have to decide not if his stepson’s death was his fault, but if he bore criminal responsibility.

Mr Guerin spent much of yesterday giving his closing speech to the Central Criminal Court on behalf of the Dubliner charged with murdering the brother of missing teenager Amy Fitzpatrick.