Accused 'trembled with fear' as two armed men allegedly dismembered Frankie Dunne

At a later time when he saw garda cars and officers at the derelict house, the accused told Bucharest police: “I went to see if what happened to me was actually real."
Ionut Cosmin Nichoclescu said two men armed with a machete sword and a knife made him move the severed remains of the deceased under a bush at the house on Boreenmanna Road. File picture: Cork Courts Limited

Ionut Cosmin Nichoclescu said two men armed with a machete sword and a knife made him move the severed remains of the deceased under a bush at the house on Boreenmanna Road. File picture: Cork Courts Limited

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The Romanian accused of murdering a 64-year-old man in the garden of an abandoned house in Cork said two men armed with a sword and a knife made him put the remains under a bush – and that night he slept in the derelict house and prayed.

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