A young chef who has a slight build and was described by a a friend as looking like a "14 or 15 year old boy from behind" would have been incapable of murdering a man by inflicting numerous injuries on him and then carrying out a "horrific decapitation and dismemberment," his defence barrister has told his trial.
Ionut Cosmin Nicholescu (30) is charged with the murder of 64-year-old father of three, Frankie Dunne, who was found headless and dismembered on the grounds of a derelict house on the Boreenmanna Road in Cork city on December 28th, 2019. He denies any involvement in the murder.
The body of Mr Dunne was discovered by a local man who was out looking for his missing cat called "Mouse." He went in to the grounds of Castlegreine House in a bid to find his pet and stumbled across the body under a bush.
