Jury in conspiracy to murder trial given option of majority verdict
Tuesday, 8 July 2008
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The jury in the trial of a Clare woman and an Egyptian alleged hitman accused of conspiring to murder her partner and his sons has been given the option of returning a majority verdict.
45-year-old Sharon Collins of Kildysart Road in Ennis and 52-year-old Essam Eid from Las Vegas both deny conspiring to murder PJ Howard and his sons Niall and Robert in 2006.
Following a break from deliberations this afternoon, the jury forewoman asked to see Paypal records relating to the purchase over the internet of caster beans, which the court has heard are used in the making of the lethal poison ricin. The jury also asked for the recipe for ricin.
The court has already heard that a contact lens holder found in Essam Eid's cell in Limerick prison tested positive for the presence of the poison.
The jury was sent out to begin deliberations yesterday at the Central Criminal Court.
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