‘She stabbed me and I stabbed her’

A fireman yesterday described how he saw a five-year-old girl screaming “help, help, help my mom” as she stood in the street and beside her dying 27-year-old mother who had just sustained multiple stab wounds.

Member of the Clare Fire Service, Gerry O’Halloran was giving evidence yesterday relating to the deaths of South African married couple, Angelique Billing and Cornelius Billing, 44, in the Clare village of Kildysart on December 17 last.

A jury at the inquest court in Ennis yesterday returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence that Ms Billing died from stab wounds to the neck and chest and Mr Billing died from a stab wound to the neck.