Court hears murder accused told medic, ‘I drove the car into the water’

A woman charged with murdering her colleague by driving him into a harbour, where he drowned, told a paramedic that “he shouldn’t have been there. I drove the car into the water,” her trial has heard.

Marta Herda, aged 29, of Pairc Na Saile, Emoclew Road, Arklow, Co Wicklow, has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to the murder of 31-year-old Csaba Orsas on March 26, 2013, at South Quay, Arklow.

Paul Quinn, a paramedic, said he was called to the quay around 6.15am, and met Ms Herda. “She was soaking wet, distraught, cold, and shivery. There was white foam coming from her mouth,” he said.