. Mr Ryan went missing on June 3, 2011 after leaving his girlfriend Mary Lowry’s home at about 6.30am. His body was found in an underground run-off tank on the farm owned by Ms Lowry and leased by the accused at, Tipperary 22 months later in April 2013. The prosecution has claimed Mr Quirke murdered Mr Ryan so he could rekindle an affair with Ms Lowry .
Mr Condon reminded the jury that his client Patrick Quirke told gardaí he was a “curious and inquisitive” person. He suggested that much of what the prosecution sought to use against him could be explained by these traits. You might say he is a “nosy parker,” Mr Condon said, adding, “nobody would like to be called nosy but we all have flaws and personality quirks but that’s not murder.”
“You are invited to weigh the evidence but you are not entitled to start and jump all the way to the end,” he said. “You can’t go straight to guilty on the basis of some searches on the internet over a couple of minutes in December.”
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