Brazilian man ‘begged not to be killed’

A Brazilian man led into a bog in north Kerry before being stabbed 64 times and his body left in a drain had been crying and begged not to be killed, the Central Criminal Court in Tralee was told yesterday.

Earlier, while held in an attic near Ballyduff, Co Kerry, when he asked for something to eat “some of the itchy yellow stuff” found in attics had been forced into his mouth by one of his captors, the trial heard.

John Paul Cawley, of Ardoughter, Ballyduff, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Bruno Lemes de Souza, aged 28, at Shronowen Bog, Tullamore, Listowel, on February 16 or 17, 2012.