A MAN accused of murdering his girlfriend told gardai he was "in a rage" when he kicked her in the behind and behind and in the "private part", the Central Criminal Court was told yesterday.
"I was so vexed I kept kicking her, I don't know how many times I kicked her," Mr Stephen Davis' told gardai in an interview.
"I was in a rage when she told me it was none of my business where she was and that she got her own back on me."
Mr Davis said he had lifted up Ms Mary Doogue after kicking her and said she had fallen a number of times. She had fallen off his shoulder and also fell on to concrete.
He had carried her home across his shoulder early on October 20th, 1995, and put her on a bed. Shortly afterwards she had tumbled down the stairs. He said she had told him she did not want a doctor.
He said he arranged for a doctor to be called for her about 4 p.m. that same day and travelled with her in the ambulance to hospital. A breathing mask had been placed, on her.
"Before they put on the mask, she put out her hand and called `Stephen'," Mr Davis said. "She never said another word."
In the interview, he said he had never planned to assault Ms Mary Doogue. Asked if he had had any intention of killing her, he said: "No way.
Notes of an interview between Mr Davis (20), of Clonmullin, Athy, Co Kildare, were read to the court on the seventh day of his trial yesterday. He has denied the murder of Ms Doogue (30), of the same address, in Athy on October 20th, 1995.
The trial continues today before Mr Justice Budd and a jury.