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flag Michael Dooley appeals his 2024 conviction in a 2022 funeral attack, citing mistaken witness ID and flawed jury instructions.

flag Michael Dooley, cousin of murder victim Thomas "Tom" Dooley, is appealing his 2024 conviction for the 2022 funeral attack in County Kerry, arguing he was wrongly identified by a key witness and that the trial judge should have directed a jury acquittal due to flawed identification evidence. flag The attack, described as a brutal "honour killing" linked to a broken engagement, involved six men armed with bladed weapons who assaulted Dooley, a father of seven, at Rath Cemetery. flag Defense lawyers claim a witness initially misidentified another defendant due to resemblance, and that the judge failed to properly address this error in jury instructions. flag Prosecutors maintain that Siobhan Dooley correctly identified Michael Dooley in court as the man with a weapon and that other testimony and CCTV footage support the prosecution’s case. flag The appeal continues at the Court of Appeal.

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