A man accused of murdering his parents told gardai he "cried over what was after happening", a jury in the Central Criminal Court was told yesterday. Mr John Francis Dolan (27), of East Wall, Dublin, denies murdering Mrs Gertrude Dolan (56) and her husband John (71) at the family home between June 16th and 19th, 1999.
Det Garda Sean McAvinchey told the court he met the accused in the living room where his parents' bodies lay under a blanket days after their deaths.
Det Garda McAvinchey interviewed the man under caution at Store Street Garda station. Mr Dolan said the killings happened the previous Thursday week when he returned from having "a few beers".
"Me ma and I had a screaming match over why I finished at Irish Rail and what I was going to do with my life. Me da went to bed. I went out to the kitchen and picked a knife and went back to the sitting room," the Garda interview notes read.
"I stabbed me ma in the right side, once in the side. Me da came downstairs. Me ma was on her bed. It was the settee made out to be a bed. Me father came down the stairs and asked me what was after happening. He went straight over to me ma. He asked me what I was after doing.
"Obviously he saw blood. I had the knife down by me side. I swung the knife and I caught me dad. I don't know where; I think it was his left side. Then I stuck it into him a few more times," the notes said.
The notes said Mr Dolan told gardai the lead-up to the killings had "been going on a very long time. She was a bitch and was always pissed." Later he "cried over what was after happening", the notes read. "I felt sorry for my father. He didn't deserve that. F..k my mother. F..k her," the court was told.
Asked by Mr Barry White SC, defending, if at any time the accused had the difference of being at the station voluntarily or while under arrest explained to him, Det Garda McAvinchey said that while the accused had been cautioned before the interview and was aware he was at the station voluntarily, no explanation of the differences had been made.
The trial before Mr Justice Carney and a jury continues today.