‘I wanted a clean slate in the court’

The man who denies murder in the case where the body was found in a rubbish chute replied under cross-examination yesterday, “You are trying to make me out to be a fucking horrible bastard that I went out to kill this man”.

David O’Loughlin said: “If I had known he was in that chute I would have gone to get help.”

Prosecution senior counsel Seán Gillane asked him why he did not tell the gardaí he had put Liam Manley in the rubbish chute and give them a full account of what happened.