Ruth Lawrence, Anthony Keegan and Eoin O’Connor.
Two protected witnesses who painted themselves as “innocents abroad” downplayed their own roles and cannot be trusted to convict Ruth Lawrence of murdering two men, her defence barrister has argued, telling a jury that: “they played the system and they tried to play you”.
Defence counsel Patrick Gageby SC urged the jurors in his closing address not to convict the 46-year-old Dublin woman, calling the foundations of the State’s case “shaky” and describing it as the “slimmest of prosecution cases”. “Too slim to justify a conviction,” he told the panel.