Karen Harrington tells court she did not murder Santina

Karen Harrington, with an address at Lakelands Crescent, Mahon in Cork, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Santina Cawley on 5 July 2019, at the apartment where she was living at Elderwood Park on Cork's Boreenmanna Road.She said she was"unsure".

On day 11 of the trial at the Central Criminal Court in Cork, Ms Harrington took the stand at midday, just after prosecuting Senior Counsel Sean Gillane had closed the State's case.On her response to the charge against her, she said:"I did not murder Santina Cawley." Mr Grehan asked if that was her position throughout the garda investigation into Santina's death and she replied:"Yes."Mr Gillane asked:"You can't say, or you won't say?"In cross-examination by Mr Gillane, she accepted that Santina's father Michael Cawley had left her apartment, and that after he had left, she was alone with Santina and the child was alive.

Mr Gillane went through some of the injuries Santina had suffered and asked Ms Harrington if she had noticed them. To each one she replied:"No."He asked her if she was continuing to maintain the position that she had laid Santina down to sleep, that she had comforted her and had taken off her clothes.Mr Gillane asked Ms Harrington a number of times if she accepted that Mr Cawley did not inflict the injuries on Santina.

To one of those questions, she replied:"It is not for me to answer that. I'm not in a position to answer that. I do not know."

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