Edmundas Dauksa appealed murder conviction in Court of Appeal

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Edmundas Dauksa appealed his murder conviction in a Court of Appeal judgment delivered by Ms Justice Ní Raifeartaigh on 13 October 2023. The case concerns the fatal stabbing of Ingrida Maciokaite, the mother of his child, on 18 September 2018.

Dauksa argued that the trial judge should have allowed the partial defence of provocation to go before the jury and had dealt inadequately with intoxication in the jury charge. The judgment records that Maciokaite had regained custody of their child shortly before the killing, after Dauksa had been the child’s primary carer.