Jury convicts man of murdering friend during row over cocaine payment

The victim was stabbed six times in the neck, heart, back and arm in a Limerick bar

The 12 jurors found Crawford guilty of murder by unanimous verdict. They had deliberated for four hours and 35 minutes over two days. File picture: iStock

A Central Criminal Court jury has found a 43-year-old man guilty of murdering his friend, whom he stabbed to death in a Limerick bar during a row over payment for cocaine.

The panel of 11 men and one woman rejected Mark Crawford's defence that he was acting in self-defence out of fear that he was going to be attacked by the deceased as he was not from that part of Limerick city.