Murder suspect's low IQ may have 'affected situation'

A 17-year-old Dublin man accused of murdering a 20-year-old because he was English is of such low intelligence that he may not have been able to think through his actions, a jury in the Central Criminal Court was told today.

The deceased's body lay undiscovered for two days in a field where the alleged murder took place after a drinking session, outside a car park in the Liffey Valley shopping centre in Clondalkin, Dublin.