'How do you know it’s a murder?' - Cork trial hears about accused man's Snapchat

The trial also heard about a machete or bill-hook
Keith O'Hara (pictured) had sent a Snapchat text to a relative of the victim on Saturday, September 7, 2019, the day Mr Jones' body was found.

Keith O'Hara (pictured) had sent a Snapchat text to a relative of the victim on Saturday, September 7, 2019, the day Mr Jones' body was found.

A Snapchat message sent by the man who denies murder in Cork was presented to the jury as an exhibit in his trial where he referred days later to ‘murder’ but was asked in reply, “How do you know it’s a murder?” 

Keith O’Hara and Helen Jones both deny murdering Paul Jones at his home on Bandon Road on September 4, 2019.

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