Accused claims self-defence in Dublin murder trial

A Dublin man who denies murdering one of his best friends during a row over phone calls, told gardaí that everything that happened on the night “was done in self-defence” and anything else was “pure lies.”

Accused claims self-defence in Dublin murder trial

A Dublin man who denies murdering one of his best friends during a row over phone calls, told gardaí that everything that happened on the night “was done in self-defence” and anything else was “pure lies.”

In his evidence to the Central Criminal Court today, Detective Garda Denis Smyth, said that the accused man told him that his friend had pulled a knife on him first saying: "If Alan hadn't produced the knife, none of this would have happened,” he said.

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