Noel Long (74) of Passage West, Co Cork, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Nora Sheehan (54) in 1981
“She had received a beating, there is no other logical inference. Apart from being found with her private parts exposed, she had bruising inside her vagina and a swab revealed the presence of sperm there,” he said.
He said it was the State’s case that the assailant responsible for these injuries were also responsible for causing her death and that the intent was there to cause serious injury in the circumstances of how she had met her death. In his closing speech, defence counsel Michael Delaney SC said there is an assumption that what they are dealing with in this case is a murder.
Mr Delaney said that delay was one thing but the failure to preserve exhibits in the case was “truly shocking”. “With the exception of the slide archive, everything else was lost,” he said.
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