Cork murder trial hears accused threatened to kill ex-husband several times

The defence senior counsel of Rita O’Driscoll (pictured), Roderick O’Hanlon, put it to a witness that this was just “Rita being Rita” and that the niece did not expect anything to come of it. Picture: John Delea

The Cork woman on trial for murdering her ex-husband made several threats to kill him including one where she threatened to pour petrol over him and set him alight, the deceased man’s niece testified today.

Rita O’Driscoll’s defence senior counsel Roderick O’Hanlon put it to the witness that this was just “Rita being Rita” and that the niece did not expect anything to come of it. Niece, Lizzy Foley, agreed with this suggestion.