Murder trial hears accused told gardaí, ‘I grabbed a knife…I stuck it into her’

The Passage man on trial for murdering his girlfriend confessed to gardaí that he stabbed her with a kitchen knife and she did not even think it was coming.

This evidence was given yesterday on the third day of the murder trial of Darren Murphy, aged 41, of Dan Desmond Villas, Passage West, Co Cork.

He denies murdering mother of three, Olivia Dunlea, 36, at her home at Pembroke Crescent, Pembroke Woods, Passage West, on February 17, 2013, but he says he is guilty to manslaughter.