Murder accused’s mum gives evidence

A murder accused told his mother “I fucked up, ma” when he was arrested for stabbing a man over a €100 drug debt, a trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

William Gilsenan, aged 24, of The Green, Larch Hill, Oscar Traynor Rd, Santry, Dublin 17, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Edward Fitzgerald, aged 29, in a car park outside the accused’s home on October 17, 2014.

His mother, Marie Gilsenan, yesterday told Caroline Biggs, defending, she got a phonecall from her son that afternoon. He told her he had a fight and stabbed Mr Fitzgerald in the leg and that he was going to hand himself over to gardaí. When she arrived at the house he had called her from, gardaí were already there.