Cork murder trial continues

A 47-year-old man told gardaí that the Cork woman he is charged with murdering at her home on Easter Sunday last year had a “past life” and that people had regularly called to her home in the months before her death.

The body of mother-of-three Catherine Smart (aged 57) was discovered on the floor of her house in Bailick Court, Midleton, on the morning of April 4, 2010. She had been subjected to a violent assault and died from multiple blunt force injuries to the head.