The issue of self defence may have to be considered in the murder trial of a delivery cyclist accused of fatally stabbing schoolboy Josh Dunne following "a stand-off" over a stolen bicycle, the State has told the Central Criminal Court jury.
The 12 jurors were also told it is the prosecution case that the accused stabbed two other people that night and that events had unfolded within a "surprisingly short space of time".
Sean Guerin SC, for the State, told the trial that the jury may have to consider the issue of self-defence as the accused had "invoked a fear" for himself and his friend when interviewed by gardai.
