Accused ‘could not accept wife killed herself’

A DUBLIN businessman accused of murdering his wife told gardaí that he could not accept she had killed herself but denied being guilty of the crime.

Accused ‘could not accept wife killed herself’

A murder trial heard yesterday that Brian Kearney admitted during a video-taped interview in Dundrum Garda Station that his wife Siobhan had died in their family home at a time when its sole occupants were the couple and their 3½-year-old son, Daniel. However, Kearney said he was “puzzled” by the circumstances of how his wife had died.

A jury at the Central Criminal Court heard the details of a Garda interview with Kearney following his arrest for the murder of his wife just 48 hours after her death.

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