The jury in a Dublin murder trial was sent home for a third night yesterday after failing to reach a verdict at the Central Criminal Court.
Four Dublin men are accused of murdering a man in the city two years ago. John Carroll (33) was shot dead while socialising in Grumpy Jack’s pub in the Coombe on February 18th, 2009. He had sustained four gunshot wounds.
Peter Kenny (29), McCarthy’s Terrace, Rialto; Christopher Zambra (35), Galtymore Road, Drimnagh; Bernard Hempenstall (28), Park Terrace, The Coombe, and Damien Johnston (27), Cashel Avenue, Crumlin, have all pleaded not guilty to Mr Carroll’s murder.
Mr Justice Barry White has already told the jury to bring back a not guilty verdict in Mr Johnston’s case because the identification of him was based on a glimpse of the back of a head.