Childminder says she brought knife to fatal scene

A childminder has told a murder trial jury how she brought a kitchen knife in a child’s schoolbag to the scene of a fatal stabbing, after receiving a phone call from the accused.

Niamh Cullen, who said she was a friend of the accused Kelly Noble and the deceased Emma McLoughlin, said she did not see the stabbing but tried to comfort Ms Noble’s two children and get them to look away as the incident took place.