{"id":186080,"date":"2025-12-11T05:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/186080\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T05:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:02:10","slug":"father-of-four-fatally-stabbed-man-outside-his-home-in-defence-of-his-family-and-property-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/186080\/","title":{"rendered":"Father-of-four fatally stabbed man outside his home in defence of his family and property, court hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Criminal Courts of Justice\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/8328f3ff-b441-484e-b330-de3a4b7bcfeb.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Criminal Courts of Justice<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A jury has viewed CCTV footage of the moment a father of four fatally stabbed a man outside his home in what he later told garda\u00ed was an act in defence of his family and his property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The trial also heard today that the accused man, Patrick Murphy, seemed &#8220;slightly nervous&#8221; when garda\u00ed knocked on his door within hours of the death of 20-year-old Jordan Ronan and &#8220;muttered&#8221; under his breath, saying: &#8220;This is a load of bol****s.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Criminal Courts of Justice A jury has viewed CCTV footage of the moment a father of four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-186080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}