News - colm horkan murder trial

The judge has informed the jury that they may return verdicts of capital murder, murder or manslaughter.

Barrister Roisin Lacey, told the jury it 'would be highly unfair to convict Mr silver of capital murder or any alternative murder' and championed the work of her own psychiatric expert witness, Dr Brenda Wright over the prosecution's Professor Henry Kennedy

'Stephen Silver was not unwell, just very very angry', one of the final statements from the prosecution.

Interviewing detectives revealed that the accused had come into contact with the victim close to 17 years previous