Murder accused told gardaí: 'One of your guys died, accept it and move on', trial told

The accused said he had "done nothing wrong, all I did was defend myself against an armed assailant. If that's my crime, that's my crime."

When detectives later asked Stephen Silver (pictured) if he killed Garda Horkan, the accused replied: "I did not kill him. He died at his own hand with his own gun. The bullets killed him. They were his own bullets." File picture

Garda murder accused Stephen Silver told officers during interviews held the day after the shooting that Detective Garda Colm Horkan was “fumbling around like a fucking eejit” with his gun and was a "fucking prick".

The accused man told detectives: "Now he’s dead and I’m alive and you’re making a huge fucking deal out of it.” The accused told detectives that he acted in self-defence after being attacked by a man he did not know.