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.

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.