The Central Criminal Court also heard that Patricia O’Connor received a minimum of three blows to the head with a solid implement at her Rathfarnham home
File photo. Patricia O'Connor File photo. Patricia O'Connor THE BODY OF a 61-year-old grandmother was dismembered into 15 separate parts that were found at nine different locations in the Dublin and Wicklow mountains, a prosecution barrister has told a murder trial.
The deceased’s daughter Louise O’Connor and granddaughter Stephanie O’Connor , both of Millmount Court, Dundrum Road, Dublin 14, and Louise O’Connor’s ex-partner Keith Johnston , of Avonbeg Gardens, Tallaght, Dublin 24 are all charged with impeding the apprehension or prosecution of Mr Greene, knowing or believing him to have committed an arrestable offence, to wit the murder of Patricia O’Connor on 29 May 2017.
A missing person report was created and gardai at Rathfarnham Garda Station commenced an investigation as to her whereabouts, she continued. The barrister went on to tell the court that it was believed the body parts belonged to a male in his 20’s in the early parts of the investigation, which Lacey said was erroneous. It was only through a DNA analysis that the body parts were identified as belonging to the deceased.
Counsel said Greene further told gardaí that he put Mrs O’Connor’s body in the boot of her Toyota Corolla car and drove up the Dublin mountains, adding that he had acted alone at all times and no one in the family was aware of what he had done or even that she was dead. Greene was arrested for Mrs O’Connor’s murder after the investigating team found what appeared to be hair in the shallow grave as well as a piece of floral fabric.Greene told gardaí in further interviews that there had been a row over a cat on 29 May and Mrs O’Connor had stormed out of the house but returned around midnight, when everyone was in bed. She came into the bathroom and struck him with a hurley in the bathroom before he struck her a number of times and she fell and hit head.
The court will see CCTV footage of a person carrying a suitcase and leaving the house at 21.34 on the night, she said. This person is wearing a jacket with its hood up, covering their face and hair. Greene told gardaí in December 2017 that what he had originally told them was not correct and other family members were involved in the event, said the lawyer.
Two hacksaws and one hatchet were later discovered near the Dodder river and there was a piece of hair on one of the hacksaws which provided “moderate support” as a link to Mrs O’Connor, concluded Lacey.
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