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A father gave evidence on Wednesday that he kissed his sons on his way out to work but the next time he saw his eldest, the toddler “was lifeless”.
Giving evidence from the witness box in Antrim Crown Court, with his former partner sitting in the dock 30 feet away, the man’s voice cracked with emotion as he outlined to the jury that after he “kicked the door in”, he ran upstairs and found her in the bedroom with his two sons.
“All three of them were lying on the bed and there was blood everywhere, all over the bed,” he told prosecuting QC Charles MacCreanor. “I think once I seen my son was lifeless and his little brother started making noises, I just collapsed on the floor.”
He told the jury he “saw a knife on the bed and I think I fell over again” before he was “ushered out and downstairs”, where again: “I collapsed on the floor for a period of time”.
His 41-year-old former partner, who cannot be identified to protect the child who survived and his older half-siblings, is on trial accused of murdering her son who was two months short of his third birthday and the attempted murder of his 11-month-old brother on March 2nd, 2020.
The jury of six men and six women have already heard evidence the women put multiple morphine pain relief patches on the children before stabbing them numerous times in the bedroom of the family home in Magheramorne, near Larne, leaving “suicide notes” stating she did not want them to “experience pain” and “I’m taking my kids with me because I can’t leave them with their dad.”
Both boys had sustained stab wounds to their necks and abdomens, but the oldest victim died as a result of a neck wound which severed an artery and a vain, while his little brother sustained life threatening injuries and had to undergo emergency surgery.
It is the Crown case that when their mother stabbed them, she either intended to kill them or at least intended to cause her infant sons really serious harm. The defence argues that at the time, she was suffering from an abnormality of mind which substantially impaired her thinking, decision making and perception of consequences.
More to follow.