Killer who chopped up body of his partner's mother fails to appeal murder conviction

Lawyers for Kieran Greene claimed he may have been subjected to a 'slow-burn provocation' similar to that suffered by victims of domestic abuse

The original trial heard that Patricia O’Connor's body was cut up into 15 separate parts and found at nine locations over a 30km range in the Dublin and Wicklow mountains in June 2017. Picture: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie

A man who beat his partner's mother to death and chopped up and scattered her body around the Dublin and Wicklow mountains has failed in his murder conviction appeal.

His lawyers had argued that he may have been subjected to a "slow-burn provocation" similar to that suffered by victims of domestic abuse, the Court of Appeal heard.