Accused stabbed ex’s lover, court hears

A FATHER of three who found his ex-partner in bed with another man got two knives from her kitchen and stabbed the other man while one of the children was still asleep in the bed, a murder trial has heard.

Patrick Murphy, 27, died in hospital shortly after he was stabbed in the abdomen in a house at 42 The Glen, Waterford, at about 5.15am on June 20 last year.

John Flaherty, aged 25, of Árd Daire, Ferrybank, Waterford, denies murdering Mr Murphy but has admitted assaulting his ex-partner and the mother of his three children, Amy Quigley, aged 25, causing her harm.