Alleged getaway driver decided at every turn to assist ‘violent thug’, jury told

A HSE addiction counsellor was not an “innocent abroad” and, despite having “continuous choices”, decided at every turn to assist “violent and abusive thug” Brian McHugh, whom she knew to have murdered a mother-of-two, a prosecution barrister has told a jury.

However, the defence told the jury that the prosecution had failed to prove Deirdre Arnold (42) knew McHugh had committed a murder when she drove him away from the scene. They submitted that while the mother-of-three may have been the getaway driver, it was McHugh that was “really in the driving seat”.

Counsel said that Ms Arnold was “full of fear” that she could have been strangled herself and reminded the jury that, even if they are satisfied she assisted the murderer, for a conviction they had to find it was without reasonable excuse.

It is the prosecution case that the accused Ms Arnold drove murderer Mr McHugh to Lisa Thompson’s home at Sandyhill Gardens in Ballymun on May 9th, 2022, where she waited outside before…

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