A man has been found of guilty of the murder of his partner who was found dead with 25 knife wounds and a partially amputated left arm in a burning apartment in Midleton, Co Cork two years ago.
31 year old Adam Corcoran was also found guilty of setting fire to the apartment that he shared with Daena Walsh at John Barry House, Connolly Street in Midleton on August 2nd, 2024.
During the trial at the Central Criminal Court in Cork Adam Corcoran vehemently denied the suggestion that he had tried to dismember his partner after he killed her
He also refuted suggestions that he set fire to the apartment in a bid to conceal his crime.
Daena Walsh, who is originally from Roundwood in Wicklow, suffered 51 injuries to her face, neck, chest, abdomen and limbs.
The court previously heard evidence that Adam Corcoran had called the emergency services on August 2nd, 2024 claiming that his partner, and the mother of his two children, had stabbed herself.
The jury deliberated for 2 hours and thirty minutes before returning with their unanimous verdicts.
