Daughter backs claims of woman accused of murdering husband

The daughter of a woman accused of murdering her husband of 32 years at their Co Laois home, has told the trial that her earliest memory is seeing her father point a shotgun at her mother and threaten to “blow her head off”.

Taking the witness stand on day two of the trial, Linda Burke said she agreed with everything her mother had said in her Garda statements, and that it was true her father had beat her mother throughout the marriage.