Murder accused told wife: 'When someone loves so much, it's the worst thing in the world'

The court also heard that on the night Anne Colomines died, she exchanged 296 messages with a new boyfriend she had met a few months earlier in France.

Facebook messages were found on Renato Gehlen's phone in which he repeatedly told his wife, Anne Colomines (pictured), he loved her and said: "A marriage is two imperfect people who do not give up on each other." 

Murder accused Renato Gehlen told his wife Anne Colomines "when someone loves so much, it is the worst thing in the world" two days before she died from knife wounds at the home they shared, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Detective Garda Niamh Coates told prosecution counsel Karl Finnegan BL that she found Facebook messages on Mr Gehlen's telephone in which he repeatedly told his wife he loved her and said: "A marriage is two imperfect people who do not give up on each other."