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A Dublin man was found guilty of murdering a homeless man with cerebral palsy, who was stabbed 183 times in a Dublin park.
Philip Dunbar (20), of Glenshane Drive, Tallaght, Dublin 24, pleaded not guilty to the murder of Adam Muldoon (23) at Butler Park in Jobstown Park, Tallaght on June 22 or 23, 2018.
Dunbar’s lawyers argued that he was too drunk to form the necessary intention for a murder conviction during a six-week trial in Central Criminal Court.
The defendant told Gardaí that he knew he had carried out the stabbing but did not recall having previously consumed alcohol and pills.
He said that he was addicted to pills and had been seeing things and hearing voices in his head for months before the attack on Mr. Muldoon.
The jury of six men and five women rejected his defense and returned a unanimous guilty verdict after just under three hours of deliberation.
Prison officers took Dunbar to the cells immediately after the verdict was announced when members of Mr. Muldoon’s family left the court in tears, one of them yelling at Dunbar: “Who’s laughing now?”
Dunbar replied, “Shut your mouth, you” as he was taken away.
He will be sentenced to mandatory life in prison for murder this Friday, when members of Muldoon’s family will have the opportunity to make a statement in court.
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