Gary Watson pleads not guilty to Donaghmede murder

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Gary Watson pleaded not guilty to murder at the Central Criminal Court, reported on 7 February 2019. The charge concerns the death of Warren O’Connor at Hole in the Wall Road, Donaghmede, Dublin, on 16 January 2010.

The trial heard that nurse Alison Boyd found the injured man with a knife embedded in his chest and its handle snapped off. Watson also denies assaulting Philip Woodcock causing him harm and producing a knife to intimidate another person during a dispute.