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2021-06-24 · Dublin
In a Dublin pigeon club shooting, Christopher McDonald, 36, was convicted of murdering 36‑year‑old Keith Walker after firing 18 bullets from a sub‑machine gun. McDonald, who was dressed in women's clothes and wearing a black wig, was found guilty by a unanimous jury in 2017. He appealed, arguing that a witness, Jason O'Connor, who lunged at him…
2021-01-25 · Dublin
In 2015, Christopher McDonald, 36, was convicted of murdering Keith Walker, 36, at the Blanchardstown Pigeon Racing Club. McDonald was found wearing a black wig and a transparent latex glove, and a 9mm Makarov sub‑machine gun was recovered in a handbag near the club. CCTV showed a person pulling a gun from a handbag and firing 18 shots at Walker,…
2020-10-22 · Dublin
Christopher McDonald, 37, from the East Wall area of Dublin, appealed his murder conviction to the Court of Appeal. He was found guilty by a unanimous jury at the Central Criminal Court three years ago for the murder of Keith Walker, 36, at the Blanchardstown Pigeon Racing Club on June 12, 2015. McDonald had pleaded not guilty to the charge,…
2017-07-07 · Blanchardstown, Dublin
A jury will return to the Central Criminal Court on Monday to decide the verdict in the trial of Christopher McDonald, 34, accused of murdering 36‑year‑old Keith Walker with a sub‑machine gun while dressed in women's clothing. The trial, described by Justice Patrick McCarthy as a 'whodunnit', focuses on whether the prosecution has proved beyond…
2017-07-06 · Blanchardstown, Dublin
In a 2017 murder trial, defence counsel Bernard Condon SC argued that Gardaí had handled evidence with "great laxity," citing gaps and inconsistencies in the investigation of the 2015 shooting of 36‑year‑old Keith Walker. Condon highlighted unanswered questions, such as the absence of dark glasses that a detective claimed to have found, the…
2017-07-05 · Blanchardstown, Dublin
In the Central Criminal Court, the trial of Christopher McDonald, 34, accused of a machine‑gun murder while dressed as a woman, is proceeding with the jury set to hear closing speeches. McDonald, from Dublin's East Wall, pleaded not guilty to the killing of 36‑year‑old Keith Walker in the car park of the Blanchardstown Pigeon Racing Club on 12…
2017-06-30 · Blanchardstown, Dublin
In the trial of Christopher McDonald, a jury viewed CCTV footage of the moment 36‑year‑old Keith Walker was shot 18 times with a sub‑machine gun in the car park of the Blanchardstown Pigeon Racing Club. The footage, compiled by Garda Patricia Davey, shows Walker driving alone in a dark‑coloured car and arriving at the club at 5.31 pm. At 6 pm he…
2017-06-26 · Blanchardstown, Dublin
The murder trial of Christopher McDonald, 34, from East Wall, Dublin, continued at the Central Criminal Court, where he faces charges of the murder of 36-year-old Keith Walker. Mr. McDonald has pleaded not guilty to the killing, which allegedly occurred on June 12, 2015, in the car park of the Blanchardstown Pigeon Racing Club on Shelerin Road,…
2017-06-23 · Dublin
The murder trial of Christopher McDonald, 34, from East Wall, Dublin, is ongoing at the Central Criminal Court. McDonald has pleaded not guilty to the alleged murder of 36-year-old Keith Walker on June 12, 2015, in the car park of the Blanchardstown Pigeon Racing Club on Shelerin Road, Clonsilla. State Pathologist Professor Marie Cassidy…
2017-06-22 · Blanchardstown, Dublin
In a murder trial at the Central Criminal Court, Christopher McDonald (34) pleaded not guilty to the 2015 shooting of 36‑year‑old Keith Walker at the Blanchardstown Pigeon Racing Club. The State alleges that a man dressed in women's clothing, wearing makeup and a designer handbag, approached two teenage boys on the evening of 12 June 2015 and…
2017-06-20 · Blanchardstown, Dublin
During the trial of Christopher McDonald, a 34‑year‑old from Dublin's East Wall, a witness named Jason O'Connor was restrained by prison officers after he lunged at McDonald in front of the jury. O'Connor had been called to give evidence and, after walking behind McDonald, attacked him. Four prison officers and a Garda intervened, and Justice…
2017-06-20 · Ratoath, Meath
In a murder trial at the Central Criminal Court, Christopher McDonald, aged 34, is charged with the killing of 36‑year‑old Keith Walker at Blanchardstown Pigeon Racing Club on 12 June 2015. According to barrister Denis Vaughan Buckley, Walker left his home with his six‑year‑old son, travelled to Whitestown, met Jason O'Connor, and later drove to…
2017-06-19 · Dublin
In the Central Criminal Court, Christopher McDonald, 34, of East Wall, Dublin, pleaded not guilty to the murder of 36‑year‑old Keith Walker, who was killed at a pigeon racing club on Shelerin Road, Clonsilla, on 12 June 2015. The judge, Justice Patrick McCarthy, instructed a jury of six men and six women that the trial would last two weeks,…