Joseph Daly (aged 41),1 from 9, Carisbrook Avenue, Bexley, Kent, called to the home of Tom Lydon on Sunday afternoon July 1, 2007.Mr Lydon said he knew Daly “since he was a baby”, the defendant being his wife’s nephew. He said he and Daly sat down and watched the Munster Football Final together and that Daly then obliged him by helping to move cattle from one field to another.“If I needed anything he would be the first man to come around,” he said.John Branch of Bexley, Kent, knew Daly for 30 years and said the defendant did work for him on a patio between June 11 and 14, 2007.
Brian Lydon, first cousin and good friend of Daly, said that in June 2007 he got a phone call from Daly asking him to bring a boat over from England to Ireland but he could not do so due to holidays and such matters.
Gloria Hayhoe, Martin Wanden’s sister, testified in relation to where her brother was on January 16, 2007 when the prosecution alleged that he purchased a mobile phone in Bantry using the false name, Steven Witsie.
“There is no way he could have been there on the 16th of January, he was with us (in England),” Mrs Hayhoe said.Her sister, Elaine Carpenter, said that the youngest sister, who was very close to their brother, Martin Wanden, had died days earlier and that Martin was with the family attending to matters at the home of the deceased at that time. Asked about him allegedly buying a phone in Bantry on Tuesday, January 16, Mrs Carpenter said: "I cannot see how, he was with us most of Tuesday."
Defendants, Perry Wharrie (aged 48), of 60, Pryles Lane, Essex, England, Joseph Daly (aged 41), from 9, Carisbrook Avenue, Bexley, Kent, and Martin Wanden (aged 45), who is also English but has no fixed abode all deny charges including possession of cocaine for sale or supply when its street value exceeded €13,000 on July 2, at Dunlough Bay, Mizen, Goleen, Co Cork.
Earlier yesterday at Cork Circuit Criminal Court Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin asked for the nine men and three women to be brought into Courtroom 2 at 11.30 a.m. and he said: “A personal matter has arisen for one of the jurors. I propose to release this juror from further service. We will continue with 11.”The young woman who was released from further service then left the courtroom and the other two women and nine men returned to the jury room to allow for further legal argument in their absence.
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