Accused gives evidence in Cork murder trial

A 47-year-old man accused of the murder of a Cork woman in her home on Easter Sunday last year told a jury at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin today that the person who carried out the murder as a “ complete psychopath”.

The body of separated mother of three Catherine Smart, (aged 57) was found on the floor of her home in Ballick Court, Midleton, Co Cork on the morning April 4, 2010, having sustained serious head injuries.