A former hospital worker accused of murdering his wife told gardai he "must have done it" but that he could not remember what he did on the night in question, a court heard yesterday.
In signed notes of an interview he made in custody, Mr John Diver said he could have done a million things that night.
The prosecution alleges that Mr Diver (60) strangled his wife Geraldine (42) and that her affair with a 27-year-old supermarket employee may have been a motive for the killing.
Mr Diver has pleaded not guilty to the murder. Geraldine Diver was found strangled in her car outside Buckley's builders' providers on Robinhood Road, Clondalkin, on the night of December 2nd, 1996. She had lived with her husband at Kilnamanagh Road, Walkinstown, with their two children. The jury has heard that Mrs Diver was seeking a judicial separation, and that her father told gardai she was sleeping on a settee in their home.
In the Central Criminal Court, the prosecution called the Garda witnesses to give evidence on the arrest and detention of Mr Diver on Sunday, December 8th, 1996, the day after his wife's funeral.
Det Supt Jeremiah O'Connell, at the time a detective inspector, told Mr Barry White SC, defending, that on December 7th, 1996, members in charge of the Diver investigation decided that if he was arrested, he would be brought to Lucan, which was considered "the most suitable" station.
Det Garda James Hanley gave evidence of two interviews with Mr Diver he conducted along with another detective at Lucan on December 8th.
Det Garda Hanley will continue his evidence this morning before Mr Justice Smith.