One of two brothers on trial for murder was aggressive and said "I'm gonna f**kin kill ya" when he walked out in front of a 55-year-old man's car at a pedestrian crossing, the deceased's partner has told the Central Criminal Court.
In her opening address to the jury on Monday, Ms Anne Rowland SC, prosecuting, said there was "bad blood" between Ian Connaghan and the deceased Michael Mulvey. Ms Rowland said that Ian Connaghan attacked Mr Mulvey near 'The Halfway House Pub' and left him on the ground after they had a confrontation on the Navan Road in west Dublin. The deceased, she said, was subsequently given "a severe beating" at a roundabout by Ian and his older brother Daniel Connaghan who had arrived in his car.
The prosecution barrister told the trial that Mr Mulvey's partner awoke to find her 55-year-old partner had passed away in bed beside her two weeks after he suffered the "severe beating" at the hands of the two brothers.
