Mark Lee, of no fixed abode, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Josip Strok but guilty of manslaughter. Photograph: Collins Courts
The State has asked a jury to consider whether a murder accused’s statement to gardaí included “justification” or motive for an attack on a Croatian man. The remarks in question involved the accused saying it is “terrible the way the homeless are treated” while illegal immigrants “run amok”.
The prosecution barrister also told the Central Criminal Court on Thursday that Josip Strok (31) was repeatedly kicked in the head, punched, stamped on and beaten with “brutal ferocity” with a pickaxe handle while moving “defensively” on the ground.
One of the accused, described by his own counsel as a “young, gormless eejit”, struck the deceased
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