Father brought knife into fight with son, court told

A father’s act of bringing a knife into a fight with his son was “highly dangerous” and constituted criminal negligence, a murder trial jury heard at the Central Criminal court today.

“There is no evidence that there was any basis for Thomas Groome to resort to upping the ante by bringing in a lethal weapon,” prosecuting counsel Mr Anthony Sammon SC told the jury of seven men and five women.