Murder accused told gardaí ‘it was accident’

A MAN accused of murdering a woman whose body was found in the boot of a car told gardaí it was an “accident” when he was charged.

Bernard Curran, aged 52, was charged yesterday with the murder of Helen Donegan, a 30-year-old mother whose badly decomposed remains were discovered in a lock-up in west Dublin last Tuesday.

Ms Donegan, who had been missing for up to seven weeks, could only be formally identified through a dental examination.