Accused: I burned house so kids wouldn’t find her

The Cork man who admitted stabbing his girlfriend denied to gardaí that his motive for setting fire to her house was to conceal the killing and said he burned it so that the victim’s three children would not find her.

The accused man told gardaí her last words the moment before he stabbed her were, “What about my kids?”

This evidence emerged from memos of interviews with gardaí given by the accused, Darren Murphy of Dan Desmond Villas, Passage West, Co Cork, who denies murdering mother of three, Olivia Dunlea, aged 36, at her home at Pembroke Crescent, Pembroke Woods, Passage West, on February 17, 2013, but admits manslaughter.