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IN THE immediate aftermath of killing Liam Moloney, Anthony Kel- ly went to the victim’s apartment and stole €600, which he called “blood jee) eat aae
He told gardai that something in the back of his mind said, “Do it, do it, do it,’ and he just “struck out” and attacked his victim.
“The thought of hitting or hurting Liam Moloney came to me before that day,” he said.
He had been depressed and para- noid prior to the killing and there had been a build-up of anger inside him, during the week before it.
“For some time I’d felt very, very bad. Stuff was getting into my head. One of the people I was upset with was Liam. We used to talk on the phone. Sometimes he’d piss me off. He’d made racist jokes. I was broke at the time, living on very little,’ he PHO
On the night of the killing, he said a “feeling of rage” came over him.
‘IT had a feeling I never had before. I remember saying to myself, ‘What am I doing?’ When I got out of the car, I more or less tried to stop my- self and I couldn’t. There was a burn- ing sensation throughout my whole body,” he said.
“I felt possessed. I never hit any- one before in my life. It was like fire coming out of my eyes, fire coming
out of my head and I couldn’t stop,” | stemnceeB(Gm
He said his victim didn’t put up any resistance and there was blood “every place”.
He said that looking back, his be- haviour was like that of “some kind of an animal, if an animal would do such a thing .. . I was gone com- pletely wild. I couldn’t believe I’d be capable of something even remotely like that. It was like as if it wasn’t me. It was some creature. I was just totally taken over,” he said.
He later took €600 from a closet in Mr Moloney’s apartment.
“I said to myself ‘blood money’. I remember repeating it a thousand times to myself when I was alone. I was not gloating or anything,” he Sr ALGE
Detective Superintendent John Fit- Zpatrick told the trial that a knife, with an eight-inch blade, had been found in Mr Moloney’s tax1.
He said that two sources told gardai that the accused owed around €150 to the deceased.
The Garda obtained a search war- rant and carried out a search of the accused’s home in Kerry, on Febru- Maes
‘‘He mentioned to us he had a shot- gun in the bedroom. It appeared to me to be a double- barrelled sawn-off shotgun. In fact, it was a single bar- relled sawn-off shotgun,” he said.
He later told gardai he did not have
the gun with him in Ruan, on the night of the killing.
Mr Kelly was arrested for unlawful possession of the gun and was taken to Cahersiveen Garda Station.
“During the journey, he began to speak about the murder of Liam Moloney and the role he played in it. He said he was finding it very dilf- ficult to sleep. He was having night-
mares in relation to what happened,” said the garda.