‘This is not a whodunnit’, bog murder trial told

When murder-accused Ross Allen travelled to a remote bog lane with armed men to confront a man about a missing bag of drugs he knew violence was on the cards, a jury was told at the Central Criminal Court today.

Prosecution counsel Patrick Marrinan SC gave his closing argument in the trial of 22-year-old Ross Allen. Mr Allen, with an address in Carrickmines, Co Dublin has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Christy Daly, aged 47, at Bog Lane, Kilbride, Clara, Co Offaly, on December 29, 2013.

Mr Marrinan told the jury of five women and six men that the facts of the case are clear. “This is not a whodunnit. It is a matter of degrees of guilt,” he said.