A MAN HAS lost his appeal against his conviction for the murder of his partner whom he stabbed in front of their baby son in Co Cork.
Hadim Kedik (34), a Turkish national, Connolly Street, Clonakilty, was found guilty in February 2008 of murdering Rose Patterson, his partner and a mother of three. He was jailed for life.
The trial heard that Kedik stabbed Ms Patterson eight times some time on April 11th or 12th 2007, leaving her to bleed to death in front of their 21-month son while he cut his own throat and wrists.
Yesterday, the three-judge Court of Criminal Appeal, with Mr Justice Nial Fennelly, presiding, and sitting with Mr Justice Declan Budd and Mr Justice John MacMenamin, dismissed Kedik’s appeal against conviction.
Blaise O’Carroll SC, for Kedik, had argued that the evidence had rendered the verdict of guilty of murder perverse as Kedik had told gardaí in interviews that he never intended to kill or cause serious harm to Ms Patterson.
Ms Patterson, who had two daughters from a previous relationship, had moved in with Kedik, a barber, in 2004.
Their son was born in July 2005 and the relationship went sour after that, the trial heard.
Kedik moved into the apartment above the barber shop and eventually got a court order to gain twice weekly access to his son. On April 11th, just after 1.30pm, Ms Patterson had dropped the boy off for his visit. Her body was discovered in the apartment alongside the injured Kedik and their son the following morning.