William Moran pleads not guilty to 2012 murder charge

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William Moran has pleaded not guilty to murdering Martin Brophy at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, reported on 11 March 2015. Moran is accused of killing Brophy at the former Waterford Institute of Technology building in Waterford between 19 and 21 May 2012. The trial was continuing before Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy. The court heard that Gardaí received a disc containing a clip from American History X in the weeks after May 2012.

Detective Garda Kevin Nolan described the film scene, which involved an attack on a man forced to place his mouth against a kerb. The source reports that Moran was on trial and that the case remained ongoing.