'I'm actually so in fear of my life right now': Murder trial jury listens to teenager's 999 recording

Dean Kerrie has pleaded not guilty to murdering 25-year-old Jack Power at Shanakiel, Dunmore East, Co Waterford.
A 999 call made by the accused, Dean Kerrie, was played for 12 jurors.

A 999 call made by the accused, Dean Kerrie, was played for 12 jurors.

A murder trial jury has listened to a 999 recording of a teenage boy saying: "I'm actually so in fear of my life right now" after he told a dispatcher that he stabbed a fisherman "by accident" and that the man had come "in the front door at him" and tried to hit him in the early hours of the morning.

"I did it, but didn't mean to though," Dean Kerrie told the emergency services. 

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