A garda witness has described the scene upon the discovery of Valerie French Kilroy's body in 2019
GARDAÍ FOUND THE body of a mother-of-three lying on the floor of a campervan with her hand, which was covered with blood, protruding outside the sliding door and a child’s car seat over her face, a murder trial has heard.
The trial has already heard that Kilroy demonstrated to gardai in interview how he had killed his wife and at one point sketched the knife he had used. Garda Nallen was trying to comfort them and make them feel at ease. “With the information we had received there was a possibility of three or four bodies, obviously when we saw the children were ok our attention focused on the whereabouts of Ms French Kilroy,” he said.
The witness alerted Sergeant McGinty and agreed with the prosecutor that it was immediately apparent it had been a violent death. Garda Boyle made his way back to the house and noticed two shopping bags containing groceries on the footpath outside after jumping a wall adjacent to the farm yard. The accused told the witness his name, said he had been on a pilgrimage of penance to Croagh Patrick and that he had to do it because of what he had done. Kilroy claimed his clothes had come off him as he was trying to get out of a tunnel and that he appeared very confused.
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