Frankie Dunne murder-accused 'put forward lies and inconsistencies to get away with murder'

Prosecution senior counsel made his closing speech in the trial of Ionut Cosmin Nichoclescu on Tuesday

Ray Boland, prosecution senior counsel, said of 30-year-old Ionut Cosmin Nicholescu: 'He has killed Frankie Dunne. He is thinking about what he is going to do about it. How is he going to dispose of the body? Dismemberment was a work in progress.' Picture: Cork Courts Limited

“Lies and inconsistencies were put forward by the accused for literally getting away with murder,” the jury in the case against a 30-year-old man accused of murdering a 64-year-old man in a garden in Cork at Christmas 2019 heard.

The prosecution senior counsel said in his closing speech the dismemberment of the man’s body in the garden was work in progress for the planned disposal of the remains by the man who murdered him — but to the defendant’s misfortune a neighbour looking for a cat found the deceased.