Farmer Diarmuid Phelan denies murder, claiming self-defense after shooting trespasser Keith Conlon.

Diarmuid Phelan, a law professor and farmer, denies murdering Keith Conlon, an unarmed trespasser, at his farm in Dublin in February 2022. Phelan claims he fired a warning shot in self-defense after being terrified by three men who had emerged from bushes, allegedly threatening him over a dog shooting. Prosecutors argue that the fatal shot was deliberately aimed at Conlon, while Phelan maintains it was an accident. The trial continues with conflicting accounts of the incident.

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