A woman has described to a murder trial the moment she saw the accused “slaughtering” and “over-killing” her boyfriend after a row over missing crack cocaine. Mr Houlden of The Crescent, Meadowvale, Arklow, Co Wicklow has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to the manslaughter of Mr Kavanagh at the same location. She told Mr Fitzgerald that once Mr Houlden was “getting plenty of drugs and smoking whatever, everything was alright”. I said please stop you are killing him and he [Mr Houlden] answered me calmly saying ‘Ok, I will’,” she said. “Oh yeah, he stabbed him 37 times, he overkilled him, he didn’t just murder him, he slaughtered him,” said Ms Kearney.

Source: The Irish Times November 25, 2020 15:10 UTC