AN AMERICAN tourist described yesterday how a garda had travelled to the US to collect video footage he had taken from a passing bus of a shooting in Dublin.
The jury in the trial of a man accused of shooting another man dead in a car on the Clontarf Road nearly four years ago has seen the video footage of the scene.
The tourist told the Central Criminal Court he was on a tour and was using his camcorder to tape people singing on the bus.
He said the driver of the bus noticed that a car in front jumped a red light. Then the bus drove past a car, which was stationary in the middle of the road with the driver’s door open.
He said that other passengers on his bus said they saw bullet holes in the car.
Craig White (23), of O’Devaney Gardens in inner city Dublin, denies murdering Noel Roche (27) on Clontarf Road on November 15th, 2005. Mr Roche was found shot dead in the passenger seat of a Ford Mondeo.
The tourist had travelled to Ireland with his wife in November 2005. When the footage was recorded, the couple had been on a tour to Howth and were being driven back into the city centre after 10pm.
The witness had been tracked down via the examination of CCTV which identified the bus. He handed over his camera to a garda who had travelled to the US.
Det Sgt Shane Henry, a ballistics expert, said he examined a Glock semi-automatic pistol which had been given to him during the investigation. From an examination of bullets and cartridge cases found at the scene of the shooting, he believed they had been fired from the pistol.