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This is not a ‘Cain and Abel’ story, Thomas Dooley murder trial told

Thomas Dooley

Alison O’Riordan

A man accused of carrying out a “biblical atrocity” by “butchering” his older brother Thomas 'Tom' Dooley in “an honour killing” at a funeral is “no Cainite” and was instead in the middle of the attack trying to save his sibling, his lawyer has told a murder trial jury.

At the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork, Brendan Grehan SC, defending Patrick Dooley, told the jury that the closing addresses were not a contest between state prosecutor Dean Kelly SC and barristers for the six accused men.