Fifty gunshot pellets found in victim, says State Pathologist

The State Pathologist has today told a murder trial that she found 50 gunshot pellet holes in the body of a 22-year-old Dublin man, who was shot near his Blanchardstown home more five years ago.

Professor Marie Cassidy told the Central Criminal Court that Dara McCormack died from "considerable blood loss" and damage to his major organs, due to gunshot wounds to the back of his body.