A man accused of murdering his partner’s mum has been portrayed as “a moron” and “Machiavelli himself”, his lawyer claimed yesterday.
Conor Devally said the accusations against his client didn’t add up, adding he had a “developmental difficulty” and was likened to “a donkey” yet he supposedly buried retired hospital worker Patricia O’Connor in a shallow grave.
He suggested to the jury the deceased’s husband, Augustine “Gus” O’Connor, was “intimately involved” in ensuring his wife’s body was disposed of.
Father-of-three Kieran Greene, 35, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Mrs O’Connor at her home in Mountainview Park, Rathfarnham, Dublin, on May 29, 2017.
He is the ex-partner of Louise O’Connor and father to three of her five children.
The deceased’s daughter Louise O’Connor, 41, and 22-year-old granddaughter Stephanie O’Connor, both of Millmount Court, Dundrum Road, Dublin, and Louise O’Connor’s ex-partner Keith Johnston, 43, of Avonbeg Gardens, Tallaght, are all charged with impeding the apprehension or prosecution of Greene, knowing or believing him to have committed an arrestable offence – the murder of Patricia O’Connor on May 29, 2017.
The trial has heard the body of Mrs O’Connor was dismembered into 15 separate parts that were found at nine different locations over a 30km range in the Dublin and Wicklow mountains between June 10 and 14, 2017.
Giving his closing statement yesterday Mr Devally said Greene’s interviews from June, where he contended he had done everything on his own, were “a whole pack of lies”.
He added the prosecution wanted to treat this as a full account of murder.
The trial continues.
