Pathologist tells court victim died of stab wounds

A 50-year-old man who stabbed a HIV-positive patient to death in St James’s Hospital told gardai that he would "do it again" when they arrested him.

Pathologist tells court victim died of stab wounds

A 50-year-old man who stabbed a HIV-positive patient to death in St James’s Hospital told gardai that he would "do it again" when they arrested him.

Mr Patrick Gilraine, a father-of-four, from Basin St flats, Dublin 8 admitted to Garda Sean Cosgrove that he had carried out the frenzied attack on Mr Kevin Dowler (aged 52) and said he hoped his victim was dead.

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