THE JURY in the trial of a Tipperary man accused of murdering his former girlfriend's new boyfriend has heard that no evidence of value was found during a forensic examination of the scene.
Det Garda Louise O'Loughlin told Michael Durack SC, prosecuting, that she took a number of samples from the house in which Kieran Cambridge was found dead, but that nothing of evidential value arose from them.
Alex Freiberg (30), of Bridgewater House, Clonmel, denies murdering Mr Cambridge at Carrigeen Close, Clonmel, on September 16th, 2007.
Det Garda O'Loughlin went to the scene in the hours following the incident.
She saw Mr Cambridge's body lying face up on the floor of an upstairs bedroom.
She said she saw wounds and blood on his upper body and head. She saw a large amount of blood on a bed and on the adjacent wall, and splatters of blood on a headboard.
Det Garda O'Loughlin said that the following day, she went to a house in a nearby estate from which she took wet clothes from a washing machine, including a tracksuit, a vest, a bath towel and a pair of runners.
She said she also went to the accused man's home but an examination there revealed nothing of evidential value.
Paramedic Derek Burke told the jury during cross-examination by defence counsel David Sutton SC that Mr Cambridge showed no signs of life and was pronounced dead at the scene following unsuccessful attempts at resuscitation.
Mr Burke said the initial call to the scene suggested a stabbing rather than a potentially fatal incident and he agreed that there was also initial confusion over the correct address.
The jury earlier heard in an opening statement that Mr Cambridge was in bed in his girlfriend's home when her former partner allegedly entered the house, armed with two knives, and threatened the woman downstairs before going to the upstairs bedroom and stabbing the deceased.
The hearing will continue tomorrow before Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy and a jury of seven men and five women at the Central Criminal Court.