Vesel Jahiri pleads not guilty to Anna Finnegan murder

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Vesel Jahiri has pleaded not guilty to murdering Anna Finnegan at the Central Criminal Court, with the trial reported on 30 March 2017. He also denies assaulting Karl Finnegan at Allendale Glen, Clonsilla, Dublin 15, on 21 September 2012.

Jahiri represented himself during the trial. The prosecution alleged that he battered down Ms Finnegan’s front door before attacking her and her brother, and that he stabbed her to death.

During cross-examination, Mr Justice Paul Coffey said Jahiri was throwing allegations at witnesses “like confetti” and later terminated his questioning of a detective. The trial continued before the judge and a jury.