'The kid is dead': Witness recalls chaos after Parnell Square stabbing

Witness tells Central Criminal Court she encountered a man behaving aggressively hours before the Parnell Square attack

Candles and tributes left following a vigil held outside Gaelscoil Cholaiste Mhuire school on Parnell Square. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

A receptionist has told the Central Criminal Court that she heard someone screaming "the kid is dead" as "chaos" unfolded on the street outside her Dublin city centre workplace, where she saw a girl lying on the ground being treated by paramedics and a man unconscious nearby.

The jury in the trial of Riad Bouchaker, aged 52, who denies attempting to murder three children, were also shown a bloodstained jacket belonging to a childcare worker whom it is alleged the accused man seriously harmed.