Michael Barr shot dead at Sunset House pub in 2016
The rate in the case of a guy qualified with the murder of Michael Barr at the Sunset House pub closed his case today saying the defendant would be an “extremely unfortunate” guy if he wasn’t involved in the murder.
David Hunter of Liverpool, with a front on Du Cane Road, White City, London, pleads not guilty at the Special Criminal Court for the murder of Mr Barr, 35, at Dublin’s Summerhill pub on the night of 25 April. . 2016.
Barr, a resident of Tyrone, was shot seven times, five in the head after two men dressed in a mask entered the pub after 9pm.
In his final address, Mr. Dominic McGinn SC, on behalf of the State, stated that “there can be no doubt” about Mr. Hunter’s involvement unless the court believes that he had been “extremely unfortunate with all those coincidences” that had occurred. presented in his defense.
McGinn told Judge Alexander Owens, president, that the DNA of a balaclava, which had a profile combined with a 61% taxpayer, matched the DNA profile taken from a cigarette butt and earplugs used and discarded by Hunter upon arrival. Keep.
The lawyer said ballistics can fit the weapons used in the murder with those discovered at an Audi A6 on Walsh Road in Drumcondra, Dublin 9, shortly after the shooting. The Audi also contained 4 rubber mask and a ski mask. Next to the car, which the occupants tried to burn, was a downed cell phone.
Voluntarily at the garda, Mr Hunter stated that the balaclava was his but that he had dropped it into a car driven through another type during his stopover in Ireland two months before the killing during a car theft exercise.
Mr McGinn stated that, while video surveillance evidence was used in the Audi case, the amount of knowledge that can be drawn from it is limited. The lawyer stated, however, that cctv would be useful for timing the movement of the vehicle, which leaves The Sunset House for 29 seconds before heading towards Walsh Road.
Mr. McGinn said that many conclusions can be drawn in this case, however, that “all situations still” indicated Mr. Hunter’s guilt and that this situation was “inexorably unlikely.”
The lawyer described the homicide as “meticulously planned” and highlighted the discovery of a dungeon on the north road containing firearms, masks, caps and scarves.
He asked why a member of the homicide team would wear a balaclava discovered in a car two months in advance if it was necessary to wear new masks, even in their packaging, from the lock.
Mr McGinn referred to four phones used on the night of the murder that Gardao traced knowledge of the cell site after one of them was secured from the burning car scene. Less than an hour after the murder, one of those phones was contacted by a phone believed to belong to Mr. Hunter.
Mr. Hunter, who did not testify directly, had told the guard that he had received a call from a guy who was looking to buy a car he was promoting overnight.
McGinn said Hunter had admitted to buying a new Phone from Holyhead before boarding a ferry to Dublin two days before the murder. The prosecution believes this phone belonged to Mr. Hunter at the time due to calls won through his then-girlfriend.
In the hours leading up to the murder, according to the prosecution, the four Irish phones were called or connected to each other, but after the murder, one of them began to call other numbers, one of which was Mr. Hunter’s phone.
Mr McGinn stated that “it is not moderate in our opinion that, less than an hour after being implicated in a murder, he would call to buy a car and speak for seven minutes.”
The lawyer also pointed to Mr Hunter’s unusual plans that the defendant had stated that he had sold his car to Spain to enroll in a residential rehabilitation center, but that he had “spent part of the car price on two tickets.” . Training
In the call of “Tom Wood” a price ticket had been booked at the moment, from which, according to the lawyer, “we have no explanation” – Mr. Wood did not board the flight to Malaga.
The lawyer stated that it made no sense that if Mr Hunter had come to Ireland, in the two months before the murder, for a “money gain” exercise to use borrowed cars, why had he returned to Liverpool the next day when he had not robbed one on his first night in Ireland.
“It has no compatibility with reality,” McGinn said.
The lawyer added that on the night of the murder, the defense had claimed that Mr. Hunter’s battery was dead and that this was coincided with the use of the four “murder phones”.
Mr. McGinn stated that Mr. Hunter had traveled with his friend and that the two men were separated at the time of the murder, “so she can say that he had killed Mr. Barr.”
The lawyer stated that a call from Mr. Hunter’s friend at 10:22 p.m. indicated that the couple were not in everyone’s corporation at the time of the murder, which would take up position at 9:30 p.m.
“If it’s moderate coincidences, Mr. Hunter is incredibly unlucky with all those coincidences,” McGinn said, adding that there may be “moderate doubts about David Hunter’s involvement” in Barr’s murder.
The three judges will hear the final speech of their defense attorney, Ms. Roison Lacey SC, tomorrow.