The five-day trial heard evidence that Keating stabbed Mr Richardson in the chest following an argument while both men were drinking. The trial also heard that Mr Keating was interviewed by gardaí on two occasions in Clontarf Garda station on March 17. Mr Keating said he thought he got a knife from the counter top in the kitchen and had stabbed Mark in the shoulder once. Mr Keating said he did not mean to kill his friend, it made him feel sick and he will never know why the incident had occurred. Ms Fleming said the probability of Mr Richardson’s DNA matching someone else was considerably less than one in a thousand million.

Source: Irish Examiner January 25, 2019 14:37 UTC