Michael Taylor pleads not guilty to Dublin murder charge

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Michael Taylor has pleaded not guilty to murder at the Central Criminal Court, reported on 3 November 2011; the trial was continuing. The charge relates to the shooting of Paul Kelly at Winston Ville apartments on Charlemont Road, Clontarf, on 6 April 2007. Evidence included a DNA profile matching Taylor’s found inside a glove near the crime scene, although the forensic scientist could not say when the DNA was deposited or who had worn the glove most recently.

Dr Dorothy Ramsbottom told the court that the glove contained DNA from two people and that the major component matched Taylor’s profile.

This report covers an earlier stage of the case. Later developments are not reported here.