How Quirke trial lawyers tried to stop the murder trial

"If you know nothing about the killing, how can you say it was murder?". On Tuesday 9 April as Patrick Quirke’s trial entered its 13th week and the prosecution case had closed, defence barrister Bernard Condon made an application in the absence of the jury to stop the trial and to have the judge direct the jury to find his client not guilty.

He said the circumstantial evidence was used early in the trial by the prosecution to establish motive. The relationship between Mary Lowry and Pat Quirke, the will, the farm lease, the reporting to Tusla, the missing passport, the dear Patricia letter, the cctv. Mr Condon described a "chasm of evidence" in relation to the 3rd of June 2011, the day Bobby Ryan went missing. The prosecution’s case was forensically barren in suggesting that something happened in three to ten minutes after Mr Ryan left Mary Lowry’s house. The pathology evidence was that if a weapon had been used there would have been profuse bleeding yet none was found.

"It beggared belief to suggest that it could have been either an accidental car strike or an accidental object strike by a person unconnected to someone who knew about the tank." In response, prosecuting counsel Michael Bowman say motive had been established in this case "in a multiplicity of ways". He said there was "an intimacy which he yearned for after the relationship, financial assistance - love and money - possibly the two greatest motivating factors". In the Dear Patricia the accused man had written that his love rival Bobby Ryan had promised Mary Lowry everything he could not.

It was beyond a coincidence that the searches took place on the 3rd of December 2012 - the same day Quirke had been caught on cctv around Mary Lowry’s home - an event which led to her telling him she wanted him off the land. "The clock was ticking and it is an affront to common sense to say these events were unrelated.

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