Murder accused ‘got a fright’ when he found victim not breathing

THE man on trial for murder in Cork told gardaí that he did not ring an ambulance, priest or gardaí the next morning when he found that the young man was not breathing and said that instead he got a fright and left the flat.

John Walsh, aged 45, from Ballinlough, Cork, and more recently of Cork Street, Mitchelstown, and Gillian Purcell, aged 34, of Simon, Anderson’s Quay, Cork, and formerly of Hollyhill, Cork, both deny the charge of murdering John McManus on a date unknown between October 28 and November 7, 2008, at flat 1, 3 Verdon Place, Wellington Road, Cork.

The jury at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork watched another video recording of Detective Sergeant Vincent O’Sullivan and Detective Garda Paul O’Sullivan interviewing Walsh in Mayfield Garda station two years ago.