Accused told me he stabbed man, says ex-partner

A woman has told her former partner’s murder trial that when she visited him in prison he told her he had stabbed the deceased.

She was giving evidence to the Central Criminal Court yesterday in the trial of a Kilkenny man accused of murdering a 25-year-old man in Waterford last year.

Tadhg Butler, aged 34, of Seafield, Tramore, Co Waterford, is charged with murdering Michael O’Dwyer at that address on January 10, 2014.