Murder trial hears 'combination of all the stab and slash injuries' led to Macroom man's death

A fingerprint expert also confirmed that a palm print found on a doorframe at Michael Foley’s flat matched the left palm print of one of the accused Daniel Hourigan

Sixty-one-year-old Michael Foley suffered 11 stab wounds, 19 slashes and multiple bruises and lacerations, the pathologist told the jury at the murder trial in Cork on Wednesday. File photo

The 61-year-old man whose dead body was found in his kitchen in a pool of blood, suffered 11 stab wounds, 19 slashes and multiple bruises and lacerations, the pathologist told the jury at the murder trial in Cork on Wednesday.

Dr Margaret Bolster, assistant state pathologist, told Ms Justice Siobhán Lankford and the nine men and three women of the jury in the Macroom murder trial that the injuries could have been inflicted by the long carving knife which was shown to her, or by a knife similar to this.