Michael Lamb's Defence Speech
Ladies and gentlemen of the Jury I am here today to prove that Brother
Michael Lamb has been unjustified. I do admit that he should be
questioned but for a lesser matter of manslaughter rather than the
murder of Own Kane.
We have today a case of a young child who had no one who cared for
him. He suffered a life of misery. Would you like to see a child
suffer so much, their childhood to be ruined? I think not. So did
Michael Lamb, he wanted to help Owen. He became a friend to Owen like
no one had before.
To begin with I will talk about the background to Owen Kane. He was
born in a large estate on the east side of Dublin City, it was rough
for Owen. Owen suffered a lot there, thinking that he had to run
away. He was the youngest of a family of five boys. Could you
imagine having four older brothers with two of them in jail having
never seen one of them. His father never was around but when he was
Owen wished he wasn’t. When he came home he hurt Owen and treats him
like he was a stray cat. Owen said that his father would call him a
‘pissin cissy’; this would be the father’s mode of address to Owen.
But Own did mention one person who comforted Owen and that was his
grandmother. She would give him give him some money the odd time.
They were quite close. When Owen went to her house she would let him
sleep beside her. Now I will like to tell you about the childhood to
Brother Michael Lamb which quite the opposite to Owens.
Michael received a happy childhood in Ballycastle; he was an only
child who lived with his mother and father. He is now alone,
unfortunately as they both have...
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...bly end up dying
due to epilepsy.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury let me stress that I am not here
today to try and excuse Michael of these crimes. Michael was wrong to
take Owen but he did do it for the right reason, to give Owen a chance
in life, to be loved.
You can clearly see the difference between the backgrounds of their
childhoods, Owen living in the slums of Dublin with no one to love him
and Brother Lamb who lived in a farm in Ballycastle with two fantastic
parents. As I have said before, Jury, Brother Lamb just wanted to
give Owen Kane the childhood that he remembered as a child growing up.
I leave you ladies and gentlemen of the jury with this, do you want to
ruin a man’s life for loving someone. I think not, I believe if you
were in Michael’s shoes you would do the same thing.
Thank you.