Joel case: ‘I would have killed myself or gone mental’

ONE of the accused in his statement to investigating gardaí, told the trial into the death of Evelyn Joel, that “it was going to come to the point when I would kill myself or go mental”.

In written statements to Detective Sergeant Terri Butler and Detective Garda Dermot Saunders, read into the trial, Jonathan Costen also said “that there would be some relief if I had gone into a room and saw her dead.

“Eleanor had got to the stage she could not cope with me and would throw me out and keep her mother.”