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Jury deliberating in double murder trial

Date
2018-07-30

Stage
Trial

Primary locality
Louth

County
Louth

Summary

The jury has begun deliberating in the trial of a 35‑year‑old man charged with murdering two fellow Dubliners, who had planned to sell him a stolen car. Jason O'Driscoll, of Richmond Avenue, Fairview, has been on trial at the Central Criminal Court for the past month. He has pleaded not guilty to murdering 31‑year‑old Anthony Burnett and 25‑year‑old Joseph Redmond in Co Louth on 7 March 2012. Firefighters were called to a burning car in Ravensdale Forest Park shortly before 11 o'clock that night. The bodies of the two men were discovered fused together inside the Volkswagen Golf they had stolen that morning. They had been shot in their heads. The State's case is that Mr O'Driscoll was involved in the murder, travelling to and from the scene in a stolen silver Mercedes S Class. The prosecutor told the jury that it could rely on circumstantial evidence to convict him.

Who, what, where, when and why

What: Report matter: Jury deliberating in double murder trial. Charges or matters: murdering 31-year-old Anthony Burnett and 25-year-old Joseph Redmond in Co Louth on March 7th, 2012. Procedural stage: trial

When:

March 7th, 2012 Hearing Or Sentence
2018-07-30 Publication

Why: Mr Justice White explained that one of the inferences that the State wished them to draw was that this car was the same one caught on CCTV footage in the carpark of a chipper in Meigh the night before, eight minutes after the car chase. CNI source report