A 25-year-old Welsh woman who stabbed a middle-aged Leitrim man thirteen times admitted today under cross-examination that she had lost her head “completely” because she was drunk at the time and didn’t know what she was doing.

A 25-year-old Welsh woman accused of stabbing a Leitrim man 13 times with three knives and then pouring boiling water over him has pleaded not guilty to his murder at the Central Criminal Court today.