At the Central Criminal Court on 17 May 2021, closing speeches were delivered in the trial of a 35-year-old Sligo man charged with murdering his wife in April 2018. The accused has pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denies murder. The jury must determine whether he intended to kill and whether he was provoked to lose self-control. The defence argued that the killing was a spontaneous reaction in the heat of the moment by a man with no history of violence, not a premeditated act. The prosecution submitted that provocation cannot rest on sexual jealousy or possessiveness, and that the victim's wish to end the marriage was not a provocative act. The prosecution urged the jury to consider text messages from the preceding year in which the victim repeatedly stated her wish to leave the relationship. Justice Eileen Creedon was to charge the jury the following day.
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