Jury must decide whether accused acted in self-defence when he shot trespasser Keith Conlon
Barrister Diarmuid Phelan has pleaded not guilty
Barrister and law professor Diarmuid Phelan cut an unlikely figure as he sat in the dock in the Central Criminal Court. While the courtroom might be seen as a lawyer’s natural territory, it is not often that senior counsel find themselves on trial for murder.
Before he stood to reply “Not guilty” at the start of the case, Mr Phelan’s profession was one of the first things the jury learnt about him.
