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“I started to question this. I was told that they didn’t know how she died... so we buried her without knowing the cause of death. A long knife matching that description was found at the scene on the day of the fire on Friday April 8, 2005, in a remote spot on the edge of the Burren in Co Clare.“I stood at the side of her grave on the day of the funeral and I was numb.“It was very tough with my mum because she was just so confused with the trauma of it, she couldn’t understand why we couldn’t have an open coffin.”
His behaviour became erratic in the following days and he took a ferry to Inishmore where he barricaded himself into a clifftop fort and pelted people with stones.