Trial opens in Cork of man accused of murder five years ago

The court was told that the defendant and the dead man 'had some knowledge of each other in advance' of the alleged incident

Tyler Jackson in February 2022. He has pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering 24-year-old Conor Quinn at Bridge Street, Mallow, County Cork, on July 12, 2018.

A 24-year-old Galway man at Cahirmee Horse Fair travelled to Mallow for fast food and got into an altercation with a local man and died as a result of a single stab wound to the chest, the prosecution claimed at the opening of a murder trial.

Tyler Jackson of Ballydaheen West, Mallow, Co. Cork, appeared at the Central Criminal Court, sitting in Cork, where he pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering 24-year-old Conor Quinn at Bridge Street, Mallow, County Cork, on July 12, 2018.