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Article: Man told gardai of rage and stabbing
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- June 20, 2009
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A 19-YEAR-OLD man charged with murder told gardai that he flew
into a rage when he saw his former girlfriend in bed with another
man and that he began attacking him with a knife he found lying on a
bedside locker.
Shane O'Riordan told gardai that he and his older brother Gerard
(28) had gone to check on the then 15-year-old girl, who cannot be
named for legal reasons, at about 2am on April 15th, 2007, after she
didn't answer her phone when he rang her.
He had been going out with the girl for about eight months up to
a few days earlier and they called around to her house where her
nine-year-old brother let them in.
The court heard that Shane O'Riordan told gardai that he and his
brother went ...