Martin Hayes had admitted using violence against mother of two Amadea McDermott (27) in his own evidence to the trial, which also heard that he used a hidden…
A murder accused gravedigger "planted" the narrative that his partner deliberately took her own life in the moments after he stabbed her, offering a version of events the State has told a trial jury is "absolutely a lie".
Defence counsel for Martin Hayes (34) with an address at Poddle Close, Crumlin, Dublin 12 said his client ‘absolutely did not accept’ that he had made such a confession