A Dublin man accused of murder vomited after gardai told him the man he had allegedly stabbed had died of his injuries, a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard yesterday. Mr Vincent Flynn (19) of Kiltipper Close, Old Bawn, Tallaght, has denied that on May 2nd 1998, at Killakee Walk, Firhouse, he murdered Steven Morris (17).
The court also heard the accused had allegedly confessed to the killing of Mr Morris but had denied he had killed him on purpose. Giving evidence, Supt Martin McLoughlin said that in answering to the charge of murder, the accused told him: "It was an accident. I am sorry." First cousin of the accused Mr Kevin O'Connor told the court that on the night of the killing Mr Flynn was "agitated". Mr O'Connor said he believed the accused was going to kill himself after a row with his girlfriend, Ms Bernadette Jolley.
In the Garda station, Ms Jolley said Mr Flynn told her that he had killed Mr Morris but that he didn't mean to do it.
Previously the court heard that, after running from the house with a knife blade hidden up his sleeve, the accused made various stops before reaching the Morris home.
After calling for Mr Morris, he allegedly took the knife from behind his back and warned Mr Morris not to "go near" his then girlfriend.
Previously prosecution counsel Mr Patrick Gageby SC told the jury that because the accused's then girlfriend expressed the view that she fancied Mr Morris, the accused "stabbed him through the heart, causing him to die."
Deputy State pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy told the court that an eight-inch hunting knife later retrieved by gardai "could have caused" the fatal injury. The trial before Mr Justice Kinlen will resume today.