'MURDERED IN REVENGE' COURT HEARS ASSAULT CLAIM.Byline: LIZ LIZ Elizabeth LIZ Lisette LIZ Leather Institute of Zimbabwe WALSH A FATHER of five was shot in the head in revenge for assaulting a woman two years earlier, a murder trial heard yesterday. Shay shay n. Informal A chaise. [Back-formation from chaise (taken as pl. )] Noun 1. Wildes, 35, is accused of murdering 48-year-old Joseph Cummins on St Stephen's Day 2001. Wildes denies the charge and also to possessing a gun and 12 rounds of ammunition This article is largely based on the article in the out-of-copyright 11th edition of the Encyclopdia Britannica, which was produced in 1911. It should be brought up to date to reflect subsequent history or scholarship (including the references, if any). . Prosecuting lawyer Tom O'Connell told the jury the victim was shot once in the back of the head at close range then twice more as he lay dead. The shooting happened after Mr Cummins, from Tallaght, Dublin, left the nearby Dragon Inn. The court heard Wildes, from Blessington Road also in Tallaght, had been drinking in the pub as well, although not with Mr Cummins. Witnesses said a blue Peugeot drove away from the murder scene and one wrote down the registration number. Gardai traced the car to Wildes' partner Valerie Reid, from Corbally Park, Tallaght, where he also lived. During a search of the house on the night of the killing gardai allegedly found the handgun and ammunition. Mr O'Connell told the jury Wildes had arrived at the Dragon Inn at 4.45pm in a blue Peugeot with a friend on the day of the killing. He claimed Wildes shot Mr Cummins and the motive appeared to be a revenge attack. Mr O'Connell said the accused believed the dead man had ass-aulted the accused's sister in 1999, although this alleged assault was never reported to gardai. A witness told the Central Criminal Court Wildes was in the Dragon Inn on the day of the killing and spoke to Mr Cummins. And asked what kind of mood the victim was in, he replied: "Very changeable." He said a man he did not know came up to him in the pub and asked how well he knew Mr Cummins. Cross-examined by Wildes' lawyer, the witness agreed the man mentioned he did "balaclava Balaclava fought between Russians and British during Crimean War (1854). [Russ. Hist.: Harbottle Battles, 25–26] See : Battle jobs" with the shooting victim years ago. The witness said he made it clear to the man he did not wish to hear about it. But when Mr Cummins heard them talking the witness said he told the man "to shut the f*** up". The witness added Mr Cummins went to the toilet and when he returned "he was in an awful state. He was white in the face". He allegedly ordered a double whiskey whiskey [from the Gaelic for "water of life"], spirituous liquor distilled from a fermented mash of grains, usually rye, barley, oats, wheat, or corn. Inferior whiskeys are made from potatoes, beets, and other roots. and "knocked it straight back". The trial continues today. CAPTION(S): COURT: Wildes yesterday |
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