A jury at the Central Criminal Court in Limerick was shown CCTV footage yesterday of the killing of a local man who died after he was stabbed 11 times.
It was the second day of the murder trial of Mr Johnny McNamara (31), Craeval Park, Moyross, who has pleaded not guilty to murdering John O'Sullivan (27) at Pineview Gardens, Moyross, Limerick, on August 13th, 2001.
The prosecution alleges that the events - which led to the victim's death - were captured on a camera operated from the control room of a nearby community centre. It was one of 16 such security cameras which had been mounted on 50 metre poles around the Moyross estate.
Mr McNamara was shown chasing Mr O'Sullivan on the night in question armed with what appeared to have been a knife, the prosecution alleged.
Further stills from the video footage showed one of the men falling to the ground and the other standing over him with a knife still in his hand.
Det Sgt Jim Ryan gave evidence that on first viewing the footage he recognised the man with the knife as Mr McNamara. He told the court that another still showed him walking back towards his house with a knife in his left hand and his right arm raised in a "clenched-fist type salute".
The jury also heard evidence from Garda Darragh McGuire that he was the first garda to arrive at the scene. He found a man lying motionless on the ground, bleeding heavily, with wounds to his throat, chest, back and stomach.
During a planned search of a house at Craeval Park on the morning of August 13th, 2001, gardaí recovered a steel silver knife concealed in a white sock in an outside shed, the court heard.
Mr McNamara was arrested later the same day. When charged with murder, he replied: "I did not mean to kill him."
The Deputy State Pathologist, Dr Marie Cassidy, gave evidence that Mr O'Sullivan had suffered 11 stab wounds on the head, neck, chest, shoulder, arm and back.
The fatal chest wound had led to major blood loss and she concluded that death was caused by haemorrhaging and shock.
The murder trial, before Mr Justice Carney, is expected to last for the rest of the week at the Central Criminal Court, currently sitting in Limerick.
This is the first time in the history of the State that a murder trial has taken place outside the capital.