Court to hear Rattigan murder appeal

The Court of Criminal Appeal will today hear an appeal by Dublin man Brian Rattigan against his conviction for murder.

The 30-year-old, with an address at Cooley Rd in Drimnagh, was found guilty by a jury of stabbing Declan Gavin outside Abrakebabra on August 25, 2001.

He was jailed for life in 2009 after a jury convicted him of the murder of 21-year-old Gavin eight years earlier.

There was evidence that a man in a balaclava got out of a Nissan Micra that pulled up outside Abrakebabra at the Crumlin shopping centre and made for his victim with a knife.

Rattigan's palm print was found at the scene.

Moments before the killing witnesses heard someone in the car shouting at Gavin, calling him a "rat".

Rattigan is now appealing against his murder conviction in a hearing scheduled to last two days.