Assisting offender verdict may be open to Ruth Lawrence double murder trial jury — Mountnugent

(File Picture: Ruth Lawrence. Photo: Collins) The jury in the trial of Ruth Lawrence can return alternative verdicts of assisting an offender if they find the prosecution has not made out their case beyond a reasonable doubt that she was part of a joint enterprise to murder a drug dealer and his fri

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by Alison O'Riordan A jury has returned to the Central Criminal Court today to consider its verdicts for a second day in the trial of Ruth Lawrence, who stands accused of shooting a drug dealer and working "as a unit" with her boyfriend to murder him and another man. The jury of four men and eight w