A killer has refused to continue giving evidence to a murder trial.
Joseph Byrne is currently on trial accused of murdering Christopher Molloy during an attack near to Bootle Strand in the early hours of July 12 last year. The 25-year-old, of Linacre Road in Litherland, was the first of three defendants called to give evidence from the witness box on Wednesday.
He first answered questions from his own counsel and that of his older brother Jay Byrne and a 14-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, whom he has been in the dock with. But midway through prosecutor Gordon Cole KC's cross-examination, he told Liverpool Crown Court that he was "done" and "would not answer any more questions".
