Palani told gardai in interviews that Muslims could not be homosexual and vehemently denied being gay, despite using homosexual dating apps.
"Obsessed" double murderer Yousef Palani, who was motivated by his hatred of homosexual men, told detectives that he would have continued "to kill" if gardai had not stopped him, the Central Criminal Court has heard.
Palani, last of Markievicz Heights in Sligo, appeared at the court on Monday for his sentence hearing, having pleaded guilty to the murder of Aidan Moffitt at Cartron Heights in Sligo on April 10, 2022. The court heard today that the first murder victim, Aidan Moffitt, had been decapitated in his home, with his head placed on a bed. He had also suffered 42 stab wounds.
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