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| Accused 'seen killing McCartney' | |
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| A woman driving in Belfast city centre saw Robert McCartney being attacked from 12 feet away and identified the killer, a court has been told. | |
| Mr McCartney, 33, was beaten and stabbed to death outside a bar on 30 January 2005. | |
| Terence Davison, 51, of Stanfield Place, Belfast, denies the murder. | |
| A prosecution lawyer told Belfast Crown Court the woman, "Witness C", saw Mr Davison delivering the fatal stab wound then kicking Mr McCartney in the head. | |
| "The prosecution say that the evidence taken as a whole would entitle the court to draw the proper inference that Davison was seen by Witness C violently attacking and killing Mr McCartney," Gordon Kerr QC said. | |
| He said evidence would show that, after initially taking part in an attack on Mr McCartney along with a number of other men, Mr Davison pursued the injured and bleeding man down another street before stabbing him in the abdomen. | |
| Mr McCartney's friend Brendan Devine suffered a serious neck injury during the incident, which occurred after a fight in the bar - allegedly over an insult made to Mr Davison's partner - spilled outside. | |
| The court was also told that Mr McCartney turned to his friend while he was being assaulted and said: "Nobody deserves this." | |
| Mr Davison is also accused of affray as are James McCormick, 39, and Joseph Gerard Emmanuel Fitzpatrick, 47. | |
| Mr Fitzpatrick is further charged with an assault on another of Mr Cartney's friends. | |
| The trial continues. |