A woman has described to a murder trial the moment she saw the accused “slaughtering” and “over-killing” her boyfriend after a row over missing crack cocaine.
Mr Houlden with an address at The Crescent, Meadowvale, Arklow, Co Wicklow has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to the manslaughter of Mr Kavanagh at the same address. His plea was not accepted by the Director of Public Prosecutions and he is on trial at the Central Criminal Court. Ms Kearney said the three of them spent the night smoking crack cocaine from a pipe in the accused’s bedroom before going to bed around 5.30in the morning.
Ms Kearney said the accused got aggressive and started punching holes in the walls. She said Mr Kavanagh was angry that he had been “robbed” by the accused and said he was going to make a phone call to a friend. “I don’t know whether he made that call as I was in the other room looking for the drugs,” she added.
The witness said she thought she would be killed next so she grabbed a mobile phone and rang 999.“I was afraid, I said if he catches me, that is me gone,” she said. Mr Grehan put it to the girlfriend of the victim that his client was “out of his mind” at the time, almost “like a psycho”. Ms Kearney disagreed with this.
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