The teenager charged with murdering Melanie McCarthy McNamara has admitted writing two letters which allegedly boast about her death.
Daniel McDonnell of Brookview Lawns, Tallaght is accused of murdering the 16-year-old in a drive by shooting in February 2012.
Melanie died after being shot once in the head as she sat in a parked car at Brookview Way, Tallaght with her boyfriend Christy Moran and another man.
Today, Daniel McDonnell's barrister said his client wanted to admit that he wrote two letters while he was in custody awaiting trial for her murder.
The letters were previously read out in court and the prosecution claims the accused is bragging about shooting Melanie in them.
One of them read:
"Close range head shots. That's what I'm going for. Two in the head - the bitch is dead".
In the other he wrote:
"That other thing wouldn't have happened if I'd known she was in the car. It was meant for that other smell bag".
The court also heard how one of the Gardai who interviewed McDonnell after his arrest told him:
"You've left a trail that even Stevie Wonder could follow" and that he was as "popular in West Tallaght as Bin Laden would be in New York.
The trial continued in legal argument for most of this afternoon and is due to enter its final stages tomorrow.
