Nephew: I saw uncle stab the deceased

The nephew of a murder accused said his uncle stabbed the deceased in the chest with a a foot-long butcher knife in a statement read to the jury yesterday.

Tadhg Butler, aged 34, of Seafield, Tramore, Co Waterford, also known as Thomas O’Grady, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Michael O’Dwyer, aged 25, at that address on January 10, 2014.

Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy told the jury at the Central Criminal Court that Denis Vaughan Buckley, prosecuting, would read out a statement to them which the prosecution say is the statement given by Anthony O’Grady, of Bishop Birch, Kilkenny.