Witness tells of nightclub brawl

A promotions company steward who was working at a popular disco on the night an 18-year-old student was kicked to death has told a jury he saw a youth wearing similar clothes to the deceased punch another youth before a big fight broke out.

John Wall, who was working for Julian Benson Promotions at Club Anabel's in the Burlington Hotel on the night Mr Brian Murphy died, told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court he at first thought the group were play-acting because they seemed to know each other.