Witness tells Carrigaline murder trial of defendant's 'strange' response to situation

Witness John McGovern said: 'I would have expected wringing hands, being a bit frantic, that was not the way it was. The driver seemed sheepish, shy.'

Ricardo Hoey (pictured) has pleaded not guilty to the single charge of murder. Picture: Dan Linehan

A witness who was first to see a man lying unconscious on a road in Carrigaline with two other man standing nearby thought one of the standing men who spoke to him would have been frantic but found it strange that he was “shy, sheepish and calm”.

That was the observation of a witness who testified at a murder trial before Ms Justice Siobhán Lankford and a jury of six women and six men at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork on Tuesday.