Witness heard Cork toddler's father scream 'Karen has smothered my child', court told

The witness told the court: “The way he (Michael Cawley) held the child I did not like it…I took the child from him.” 

Erik Okunala at Cork Court today. He told the court Michael Cawley was lifting up 10kg lifting weights and wanted to fight but later apologised for this. Photo: Michael Mac Sweeney/Cork Courts

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A witness in the Santina Cawley murder trial said the two-year-old’s dad screamed in the early hours of a hot July morning: “Karen has smothered my child.”