'Just me, God, and that woman': Kilkenny murder accused refused to give gardaí reason for killing

Mr Rowe also told gardaí that he was going to return to Ms Butler's house "to cut her up and bury her legs one place and bury her arms somewhere else".

Trevor Rowe has pleaded not guilty to murdering Ms Butler at her home at Maudlin St, Kilkenny. Picture: Dylan Vaughan.

A man accused of murdering a pensioner in her own home told gardaí that he had killed the woman but refused to say why, telling detectives it was to do with "no one — just me, God, and that woman".

When asked by gardaí why he could not tell them what he did to Ann Butler, 71, Trevor Rowe replied: "Because it's disgusting", his trial has heard.