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A father-of-one has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a fellow drug dealer who had threatened his family over a €100 debt. The accused had chased him across a busy street and stabbed him to death in broad...
A murder accused’s barrister has likened his client’s situation at the time of the killing to that of Michael Corleone in the Godfather III, when he was trying to get out of crime but kept being pulled back in. John...
A murder accused told gardai that his first attempts to strike the deceased with a knife did not work so he ‘put more effort into it’. The drug dealer, who stabbed a man to death in broad daylight outside a shopping...
A jury in a murder trial has been shown footage of the accused chasing the deceased while grasping a knife moments before he stabbed him to death. The jury was watching the CCTV footage this morning on the fourth day...
A murder accused’s sister-in-law thought her family’s lives were in danger due to their windows constantly being smashed before the accused killed the man he blamed. Sanita Rozkalna was giving evidence this morning on...
A murder accused told gardai he would ‘get the fella’ who had smashed his front window a couple of hours before he stabbed the deceased to death in broad daylight outside a shopping centre. The garda, who then told him...
The partner of a drug dealer on trial charged with murder has testified that the deceased had attacked him with a knuckle duster months earlier, and had smashed in their windows a number of times over a drug debt....
A 26-year-old man will go on trial at the Central Criminal Court this afternoon, accused of murdering another man in Longford more than two years ago. Rihards Lavickis, originally from Latvia, but with an address at...
A prosecutor has told a murder trial that the accused told gardai that he was going to ‘sort out’ the deceased the night before he stabbed him to death outside a shopping centre. Patrick McGrath was outlining the...
A 25-year-old man will go on trial next spring, charged with murdering another man in Longford more than two years ago. Rihards Lavickis, of Annaly court, Longford, is charged with the murder of Akadiusz Czajkowski on...
A jury has failed to reach a verdict on whether a 25-year-old drug dealer is guilty of the murder or manslaughter of another man in Longford more than two years ago. Rihards Lavickis of Annaly Court, Longford had...
The jury will resume deliberations in a Longford murder trial on Wednesday morning, despite telling the judge that there seemed to be no point in returning. They had spent today deliberating in the trial of a...
The jury has begun deliberating in the trial of a 25-year-old drug dealer, charged with murdering another man in Longford more than two years ago. Rihards Lavickis, of Annaly Court, Longford has pleaded not guilty to...
A drug dealer who admits stabbing a man to death following a number of rows over a €300 debt told gardai he wanted to teach the deceased a lesson, his murder trial heard today. Rihards Lavickis (25) of Annaly Court,...
(File Picture: Professor Marie Cassidy. Credit: Collins) A father of two had drugs and alcohol in his system when he died from a stab wound to the heart, State Pathologist Professor Marie Cassidy told a murder trial...
The partner of a man accused of murdering an alleged drug dealer feared friends of the deceased would come for revenge following the fatal stabbing, a trial heard this morning. Inita Rozkalne told defence counsel, John...
A murder accused told a garda that the deceased was "always at me" and that he was "going to sort him out" hours before he carried out the fatal stabbing, a trial heard this morning. Garda Daniel Lynch told prosecuting...
The partner of a Latvian man accused of murder has told his trial that he was beaten up by the deceased months before the fatal stabbing. Inita Rozkalne gave evidence in the trial of Rihards Lavickis, a 25-year-old...
The State has rejected a plea of guilty to manslaughter in the trial of a 25-year-old charged with murdering a man in Longford in 2016. Rihards Lavickis, of Annaly Court, Longford, today pleaded not guilty to murder...