Accused claimed he ‘just lost it’

THE Corkman on trial for murdering a 25-year-old British man told gardaí that: “I don’t know what the fuck I did, I just lost it.”

Timothy O’Driscoll, aged 34, from St Rita’s Avenue, Gurranabraher, denies a charge of murdering Lee McCarthy, aged 25, at St Rita’s Avenue, Gurranabraher, Cork, on April 17 at 12 St Rita’s Avenue.

Evidence was given of a number of interviews the defendant gave to gardaí.