Stabbing 'a means to an end', jury told

Lawyers for the State have told the jury in the case of a butcher on trial for murdering a shopkeeper during a robbery, that he deliberately stabbed the man through the chest as “a means to an end”.

Closing the three-day murder trial at the Central Criminal Court, Ms Una Ni Raifeartaigh SC for the prosecution, said Anthony Farrell decided to stab John Deasy so he could get him out of his way as he was trying to flee, after robbing €50 from a newsagents.