A 35-year-old man stabbed his former employer 19 times "without warning” because the accused was having “psychotic delusions” and believed his boss was responsible for the murder of Michaela McAreavey, his trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard.
The court heard the accused, Neil O’Dowd, was increasingly paranoid in the weeks leading up to the incident and believed Covid was a conspiracy.
He also thought his boss was responsible for the unsolved murder of Michaela McAreavey in Mauritius and had brought a Mauritian chef who worked in the pub over to Ireland to cover up the crime.
