Prosecution claims men 'ran like rats from a sinking ship' after 'dark honour killing' in Kerry

The Kerry murder trial was told: 'Honour was offended. This was a score to be settled in blood. It is as heartbreaking as it is ridiculous and stupid.'

Thomas Dooley. Prosecution senior counsel Dean Kelly said the first thing that was known for sure was that Mr Dooley was brutally murdered. Picture via Facebook

The men accused or carrying out murder in a cemetery in Tralee ran like rats from a sinking ship after carrying out a wild, brutal and ferocious attack on a father of seven left dead or dying and his widow cleaved in medieval style.

That was how prosecution senior counsel Dean Kelly described it in his closing speech to the jury at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork on Thursday.