14 linked court reports in the localnews.ie archive.
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The jury will resume its deliberations on Friday morning in the trial of two men charged with murdering a 23-year-old by beating him unconscious and leaving him to drown in a river. The Central Criminal Court trial has heard that Patryk Krupa drowned in the...
The jury is expected to begin deliberating on Thursday in the trial of two men charged with murdering a 23-year-old by beating him unconscious and leaving him to drown in the River Shannon. The Central Criminal Court has heard that Patryk Krupa drowned while...
The jury in a murder trial has been told that the prosecution has handed it a ‘half-baked, uncooked product’ and had told it to finish it off. Conor Devally SC was giving his closing speech today on behalf of one of two men charged with murdering a...
The State has closed its case in the trial of two men charged with murdering a 23-year-old by beating him unconscious and leaving him to drown in the River Shannon. The Central Criminal Court has heard that Patryk Krupa drowned while incapacitated with a...
A murder trial has heard that the dead man’s DNA was found on the bloodstained watch and sock of a man accused of murdering him in Athlone two years ago. The jury heard the evidence this morning in the trial of two men charged with murdering the 23-year-old...
A witness in a murder trial has been shown an identification card bearing his name, address and date of birth, but a different photograph. Tomas Strugacz was giving evidence in the trial of two men charged with murdering a 23-year-old by beating him...
The trial of two men charged with murdering a 23-year-old by beating him unconscious and leaving him to drown in the River Shannon has continued in the absence of the jury this morning. It’s the seventh day of the Central Criminal Court trial, which has...
One of the main State witnesses in a murder trial has agreed that he didn’t tell gardai anything he had told the trial until they had pulled him for murder. Kuba Zmuda was today being cross examined by the barrister for one of two men charged with murdering...
A witness has told a murder trial that he saw two men drag the deceased out of a car, beat and kick him for 15 minutes before dragging him to the River Shannon, from which his body was later recovered. Kuba Zmuda was giving evidence to the Central Criminal...
(Pictured: State Pathologist Professor Marie Cassidy. Photo: Collins) A jury has heard that the deceased in a murder case drowned in the Shannon while incapacitated with a head injury from a violent assault. State Pathologist Professor Marie Cassidy was...
A murder trial has heard a mother’s description of viewing her son’s bruised and injured body hours after it was pulled from the Shannon almost two years ago. The statement of Eva Krupa was read to the jury in the trial of two men charged with murdering her...
A woman became emotional in Central Criminal Court today, as she described finding her boyfriend’s body in the Shannon while she was pregnant. Malwina Kurowski was giving evidence in the trial of two men charged with murdering a 23-year-old by beating him...
CCTV footage has been shown in the trial of two men charged with murdering a 23-year-old by beating him unconscious and leaving him to drown in the Shannon. Leszek Sychulec (34) of Drinan, Ballymahon, Co Longford and Andrzej Gruchacz (35) with an address in...
Two men have gone on trial accused of murdering a 23-year-old man in Co Roscommon almost two years ago by giving him ‘an absolutely savage beating’ and leaving him to drown in the Shannon. Leszek Sychulec (34) of Drinan, Ballymahon, Co Longford and and...