{"id":142287,"date":"2025-10-24T07:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142287\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T07:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:57:10","slug":"ruth-lawrence-trial-key-witness-terrified-of-double-murder-accused-who-he-said-carried-around-a-little-black-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142287\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Lawrence trial: Key witness \u2018terrified\u2019\u00a0of double murder accused, who he said carried around \u2018a little black gun\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Man gives evidence that Ruth Lawrence \u2018put weapon down back of trousers\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ruth Lawrence.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/96552812-4ec6-4df0-ad64-fbdb361cd2ed.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ruth Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A key witness has told a jury that he is \u201cterrified\u201d of double murder accused Ruth Lawrence, who he said carried around \u201ca little black gun\u201d and would put it down the back of her trousers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ms Lawrence (45), who is originally from Clontarf in Dublin but with an address at Patrick\u2019s Cottage, Ross, Mountnugent, Co Meath, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Anthony Keegan (33) and Eoin O\u2019Connor (32) at an unknown location within the State between April 22, 2014, and May 26, 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man gives evidence that Ruth Lawrence \u2018put weapon down back of trousers\u2019 Ruth Lawrence. A key witness has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,52,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-142287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-dublin","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115428081369705777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}