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A neighbour of Karen Harrington, who is charged with the murder of a Santina Cawley (2), has told how she heard her screaming to call gardaí and she would tell them everything on the night the toddler sustained fatal injuries.
Aoife Niamh McGaley told the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork that she knew Karen Harrington since she was a teenager. Ms McGaley said she was living in the Elderwood apartment block on the Boreenamanna Road when she heard her neighbour Ms Harrington shouting in the early hours of July 5th 2019.
“Around 3amish, I heard arguing - it sounded like arguing between a man and a woman, voices were kind of muffled -a bit after that, I heard Karen screaming, ‘I’m going to tell them’ and I heard glass smash.
“She was screaming at some guy, Dylan and some guy, Colm, she was screaming at them to get the guards, she was going to tell them everything … she was saying ‘I’m going to tell them all’,” Ms McGaley told the fifth day of Ms Harrington’s trial.
Ms Harrington of Lakelands Crescent, Mahon, Cork, has denied the murder of Santina Cawley at Elderwood Park, Boreenamanna Road, on July 5th, 2019 and is on trial before a jury of seven men and five women at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork.
Ms McGaley also told the jury that when she heard arguing between what sounded like a woman and a man at around 3am that she initially thought it was coming from another apartment in the block, but then she recognised Ms Harrington as one of the participants.
She said she also heard the sound of breaking glass - like a window smashing rather than a glass breaking - so she went down the corridor to Ms Harrington’s duplex apartment and began banging on the door to see if everything was alright but she got no answer.
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She said she looked in and saw what looked like the shadow of a person standing in the kitchen but she couldn’t see them clearly and she was shouting to Ms Harrington because she was “genuinely concerned” for her but she still was getting no answer.
She raced down to the main door to the apartment on the lower level and she could hear that someone was very upset inside the apartment so she started kicking the door to try and get someone to open up, she told the court.
“I could hear someone who was very upset - it sounded like it was Karen who was upset and was sobbing and Karen came out to the door and said from inside the door ‘Is it the guards’ and I told her it was me and she opened the door.
“She looked very distressed and very upset - she was wearing a pyjama bottom with flowers and a string vest top - she was quieter in herself and she kept apologising - she said ‘I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to be shouting and causing trouble, I’m going to bed now’,”
She noticed a mark on the side of Ms Harrington’s face and some of her hair had been ripped out as if somebody had grabbed her hair and pulled out clumps, said Mc McGaley, adding that she noticed that a Betty Boop statue that Ms Harrington loved had been smashed just inside the door.
“I got the impression she was scared of something ….. I got this uneasy feeling for her … I was not happy about the situation at all. I went back to my apartment and I heard her arguing with someone with a very deep voice - it was a male unless it was a woman with a very deep voice.”
Ms McGaley told how, at around at 3.42am, Ms Harrington rang her and asked for a lighter but she told her she did not have a lighter whereupon Ms Harrington said ‘No bother, girl’.The case continues before the jury and Mr Justice Michael MacGrath.