McAnaspie murder-case pair accuse each other of stabbing

A court has heard two men being tried for the murder of 17-year-old Daniel McAnaspie each claimed to have witnessed the other man carrying out the stabbing.

Trevor Noone and Richard Dekker, from Whitestown Avenue in Blanchardstown deny killing the teenager, who was in HSE care, at Tolka Valley Park on February 26, 2010.

The jury has heard that after a night out with friends, Daniel McAnaspie was last seen in Blanchardstown with the two accused men.

When arrested, Trevor Noone told gardaí that Richard Dekker had laughed as he stabbed the teenager who had pleaded: "Sorry, give me another chance".

However, Richard Dekker gave a different account to gardaí, claiming that he had been the bystander while Noone had attacked the teenager regarding some previous fight.

The jury heard that there will be evidence that both men identified an isolated spot in a park by the Tolka River as the murder scene.

The prosecution say that the weapon used could have been part of a garden shears found discarded in the river.

Daniel McAnaspie’s badly decomposed body was found by a farmer in Co Meath nearly three months after his disappearance.