Murder trial jury asked to consider self-defence plea

A murder trial jury has been told that the main issue of the case is whether a 34-year-old Dublin man acted in self-defence when he stabbed a 23-year-old to death last year.

Thomas Kinsella of Orchid House on James’s Street in the city has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court, charged with murdering John Murdoch on August 27, 2011.