Shop assistant broke down in tears after boss' death
A shop assistant told a court today that she broke down in tears the evening her boss John Deasy was fatally stabbed in the chest at his newsagents in Arklow in Co, Wicklow.
Kay O' Connor said she was on the evening shift when a man armed with a knife and wearing a balaclava came into Brauder's shop and ordered her to open the till.
She said he rifled for notes as she shouted for help from her boss John Deasy who lived in the flat upstairs.
She agreed with the defence that the shopkeeper looked angry when he appeared at the front of the shop and said: 'This is the second f***ing time, this time I have the knife', which she said he held up.
She told the jury there was pushing and shoving between the two men and that they ended up in the middle of the road where she saw John Deasy grab his arm as the robber turned to go.
She cried in court, saying she knew he had been stabbed but thought he had been hit in the arm.
The accused, Anthony Farrell of Marian Villas in Arklow, admits robbing Brauder's Shop but denies murdering the father-of-two on Coolgreany Road on November 25, 2009.
