Widow's killer laughed during garda interview, court told

Widow Anne Corcoran’s killer laughed as he told detectives about driving her car through a garda checkpoint less than two days after burying her in a shallow grave, his murder trial heard today.

Oliver Hayes (aged 49) of Clancool Terrace, Bandon told interviewers that he moved the widow’s Peugeot away from his street about noon on Saturday January 24, 2009 before he flew to Austria on a skiing trip with his girlfriend. The 60-year-old had not been reported missing at that stage.