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A man accused of the murder of a homeless man who was stabbed more than 180 times told Gardaí he heard voices telling him “do it.”
Philip Dunbar, 20, of Glenshane Drive, Tallaght, Dublin 24 pleaded not guilty to the murder of Adam Muldoon at Butler Park in Jobstown Park, Tallaght on June 22 or 23, 2018.
Today a voluntary statement that Mr. Dunbar made to Gardaí was read in the Central Criminal Court and signed.
He said he was “chilling on the road all day” when he saw “Floater.”
“Floater” was the nickname for Adam Muldoon, the 23-year-old with cerebral palsy who died after he was stabbed 183 times in a Tallaght park in June 2018.
Dunbar, who was 17 at the time, pleaded not guilty to Muldoon’s murder.
He told gardaí that “Floater” was following him and helped him jump over a wall and into a field.
“We had a little discussion,” he said in his statement, when I stabbed him he was blank. I could only hear voices saying “do it, do it”.
He also told Gardaí that he knew that he “did the stabbing, I don’t remember doing it. I was left blank.”
In the statement, he said he would show Gardaí where he threw the knife. He also said he heard voices saying “just cut yourself, hurt yourself”.
He said he was drinking and using drugs at the time and could not have “done it with a sober mind.”
The court also heard that Mr. Dunbar’s grandmother and guardian were with him at the time of the statement and that he repeatedly refused to see a lawyer.
There was an argument between them and she suggested that he find a lawyer, but he wanted to continue.
The court also heard that gardaí warned him that even though it was midnight a lawyer was available day and night and that if he changed his mind at any time, the process could be stopped.
The court was informed that Mr. Dunbar signed the statement that was read today.
The trial continues.
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