Student saw 'distressed' man on floor 'covered in blood', Cork murder trial told

Another witness described helping a woman to lift a man and helping them to get a taxi

Helen Jones (pictured) has pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering Paul Jones – her 52-year-old brother at his home.

An eyewitness in the Cork murder heard a woman saying to the man lying covered in blood in the hallway of the house on Bandon Road, “That is what you get, you got off light”. Emily O’Sullivan, a student, was returning home after a walk around The Lough when she saw a man outside a bungalow on Bandon Road.

“I think he had a hand up to his face and his hand up to the wall. He was very distressed. As I walked closer there was a woman inside the door having a mumbling conversation… to the body on the ground.