How a row 'all about the house, house, house' led to a sister murdering her brother

When a dying Cork man changed his will in 2013, it was the first act in a narrative that concluded five years later with Helen Jones and Keith O'Hara murdering Paul Jones, writes Liam Heylin

Helen Jones (pictured), sister of murder victim Paul Jones, could have lived out her life at Cahergal Avenue.

When a dying Cork man who was known as The Horse called his solicitor to his bedside to change his will a week after his wife died, it was the start of a chain of events that ended years later with his daughter stabbing one of his sons to death in the hallway of his cottage home in the city.

Solicitor Kevin Hegarty had been the Jones family solicitor for many years and he responded to the call from William Jones, a hardworking man known as The Horse, to oversee the re-writing of his will. It wasn’t the first time that William Jones had re-written his will. He had done so a number of times over the years. But the one he wrote on May 27, 2013, was his final will and he was dead less than two months later.