The jury in the trial of a woman accused of fatally stabbing another woman outside a supermarket in Co Meath last year has risen to consider its verdict at the Central Criminal Court.
Kelly Noble (21) mother-of-two from Seaview in Laytown, denies the murder of Emma McLoughlin (19), also a mother-of-two in Laytown, Co Meath on June 2 nd, 2006.
Ms Noble also denies a second charge of unlawfully producing a knife in the course of a dispute or a fight, in a manner likely to intimidate or inflict serious injury.
Mr Justice Barry White told members of the jury panel they must be cold, dispassionate and analytical in considering their verdict and must leave aside any sympathies.
In order to convict the accused of murder, he said the State must have satisfied them beyond all reasonable doubt that the issue of self-defence does not arise in the trial.
He said they must also consider the defence of provocation in which an accused is found to have had a loss of self control and is so subject to passion that they are no longer master of their own mind.