No show from main suspect in Private Seán Rooney killing trial

Private Seán Rooney

Mohammad Ayyad, the main suspect in the killing of Private Seán Rooney, failed to attend a hearing at the military tribunal in Beirut on Friday citing medical reasons. 

A lawyer representing Ayyad provided a one-page medical report, which they said was verified by the Lebanese hospital authority and ministry of health, to the assistant military prosecutor, Claude Ghanem. The report outlining the reasons for which Ayyad was hospitalised was not read aloud in court.