Park ranger on 'mission from god to kill wife' did not have a mental disorder, court told

The Central Criminal Court jury hearing his trial has been told that James Kilroy accepts that he killed his Cork-born wife

The court heard that James Kilroy spoke of being watched by body guards, said that he believed the year was 2024 (it was 2019) and that he felt he had lived 50 years in one day.

A park ranger who said he was "on a mission from god" after being found wandering naked through a field having killed his wife was not suffering from a mental disorder and did not meet the criteria for detention under the Mental Health Act, a psychiatrist has told his murder trial.

James Kilroy (51) has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to murdering his wife Valerie French Kilroy, who died at their home from strangulation, blunt force trauma and a stab wound to the neck.