Update 2pm: David Mahon’s trial has heard there were photos of his missing stepdaughter on the floor of his apartment on the night he is accused of murdering her brother.
The 46-year-old denies stabbing Dean Fitzpatrick after confronting him about stealing a water bottle from his bike.
Jurors were sent out for an early after David Mahon’s wife Audrey Fitzpatrick stormed out of the courtroom during the evidence of one of the State’s key witnesses.
Her husband’s friend, Karl O’Toole, said he called over to Dave’s apartment at Northern Cross in Malahide, north Dublin on the night of May 25, 2013 after he told him he’d broken up with Audrey.
He said his friend was drunk and seemed agitated.
Inside the apartment, he noticed pictures of Dave’s stepdaughter Amy and his mother.
Amy hasn’t been seen since she went missing in Spain in 2008 – four years after they moved over there.
He said he thought that was strange.
Update 1.05pm: The girlfriend of an alleged murder victim has told his stepfather’s trial that she received a threatening call from the accused on the day in question.
David Mahon denies stabbing Dean Fitzpatrick following an altercation outside his apartment at Northern Cross near Malahide in May 2013.
Sarah O’Rourke said she was frightened after receiving a phone call from David Mahon on May 25, 2013.
She said he wanted to know where his stepson Dean Fitzpatrick was.
He kept asking her to put him on the phone and when she told him he wasn’t there, she claims he threatened to put a knife in her neck.
Paul Whyte, who opened up the Ben Dunne gym in Santry the day before, gave evidence of taking a complaint from Mahon the day before.
David Mahon and Dean Fitzpatrick were both members, and he was called back from his break around 11am to deal with a complaint.
Mr. Mahon told him his bike, which had been parked outside, had been tampered with and a water bottle was missing.
The duty manager said the accused tried to put pressure on him to tell him who it was. He said he mentioned Dean’s name and said he was a bike thief.
Earlier: The trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering his stepson has heard he tried to get him barred from their gym the day before the alleged murder.
David Mahon denies stabbing Dean Fitzpatrick following an altercation outside his apartment at Northern Cross in Malahide in May 2013.
The prosecution claims it happened after the 23-year-old admitted interfering with his bike outside the gym to annoy him.
A manager at their gym said Mr Mahon repeatedly asked for Dean Fitzpatrick to be barred.
He said he wasn’t angry, but seemed agitated.
The 46-year-old denies the charge and the court heard yesterday that he told Gardaí the young father-of-one ran into the blade after he took it from him.
