The jury in the trial of a 50-year-old man who shot his friend and dumped his dismembered body in a canal in January 2016 has will resume deliberating on a verdict tomorrow.
Paul Wells Snr of Barnamore Park, Finglas in Dublin, has admitted shooting 33-year-old Kenneth O'Brien and dismembering his body.
However he denies a charge of murder and claims to have shot Mr O'Brien as they struggled during a row.
The accused man has claimed that the row happened because Mr O'Brien had asked him to kill his partner Eimear Dunne and Mr Wells refused to do it.
After Mr O'Brien was shot, Mr Wells dismembered his body in his back yard in Finglas with a chainsaw, and threw the remains in the Grand Canal.
He told gardaí he panicked about disposing the body and chopped it up using a chainsaw he had borrowed from the deceased.
Mr O'Brien's remains were found in a suitcase in the canal.
