Man found guilty of murdering woman, 71, in Kilkenny

Jury took just one hour and 19 minutes to reach its verdict

Trevor Rowe, 30, who was found guilty of murder. Picture: Dylan Vaughan

A jury has taken just one hour and 19 minutes to find a man who beat, stabbed, and mutilated a pensioner in her own home guilty of her murder.

The Central Criminal Court trial heard evidence that on March 25, 2020, three anonymous 999 calls were traced back to the defendant Trevor Rowe, aged 30, including one where he said he murdered a woman five days previously and that the location of the body was on Maudlin St in Kilkenny. When gardaí called to Rowe's home, he fell to his knees, cried uncontrollably and said: "I killed a woman. I murdered a woman. I slit her throat and stuck a knife in her head."