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The mother of a teenage girl who was stabbed to death during an alleged dispute in a Dublin park collapsed in court after hearing a witness describe her son’s last moments.
The witness told the Central Criminal Court how he ran to his friend Azzam Raguragui, 18, after seeing that he was wounded.
He said, “I was telling Azzam that I was going to make it and he was telling me that I was going to die.”
At that time, Azzam’s mother broke down in court.
Judge Paul McDermott then asked the jury to leave court for a time and, when he later brought them back to court, asked them to put the emotion aside and said that while that may seem “distant or cold “Your job is to consider the facts in a dispassionate way.
The 17-year-old defendant, who cannot be identified, pleaded guilty to manslaughter but not guilty of the murder of Azzam in Finsbury Park, Dundrum, Dublin on May 10, 2019.
The court has heard that a dispute broke out between two groups of teenagers after a dispute over a stolen bicycle.
Azzam suffered five stab wounds during hand-to-hand combat.
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