Leitrim Street murder 'made to look like suicide'

A murder-accused used a large knife “like a hammer and chisel” on his victim’s throat, wrists, stomach and thigh after strangling her with an electric cable and robbing her, it was alleged at the Central Criminal court today.

Leitrim Street murder 'made to look like suicide'

A murder-accused used a large knife “like a hammer and chisel” on his victim’s throat, wrists, stomach and thigh after strangling her with an electric cable and robbing her, it was alleged at the Central Criminal court today.

“He tried again at her throat like a hammer and chisel to cut into the inside” after he had "shoved" a large knife into her right thigh, Mr Thomas Penkert allegedly told detectives in Cork about Mr Brian Walsh, his co-accused.

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