The Central Criminal Court has heard that a man accused of murdering his wife asked detectives if they would want his clothes when he arrived on the scene after her body had been found.
Brian Kearney denies murdering 38-year-old Siobhan Kearney at their home in Goatstown in Dublin in February 2006.
Garda Sergeant Charlie McConalogue told the court he had been a friend of Siobhan Kearney's for 30 years.
He said he went to her house on the morning of 28 February 2006 after getting a phone call from her sister Brighid.
He became emotional as he described identifying her body in her bedroom.
He said Brian Kearney was sitting in the front room - Sergeant McConalogue said Mr Kearney appeared to be hyperventilating, he was rocking backwards and forwards, saying 'oh my god, oh my god'.
Sergeant McConalogue said he told Mr Kearney detectives wanted to speak to him upstairs. Mr Kearney said; 'Charlie, Charlie, will I be fit to go through with it.'
He later asked Sergeant McConalogue; 'Will detectives want my clothing?'
Sergeant McConalogue said he was taken aback by this question and told investigating gardaí about it.
The Court also heard today that one day before her body was found, Siobhan Kearney rang her local citizen's advice centre and made an appointment to meet someone in the legal section about separation.
Sister gives evidence
Earlier, a sister of Siobhan Kearney told the Court that she told Brian Kearney to get out of the house when he returned home to the Kearney house on 28 Febraury 2006.
Aisling McLaughlin said people were very upset and Brian Kearney was breathing heavily.
The court also heard that in 1995 Siobhan McLaughlin and Brian Kearney got engaged but the relationship later ended. They got back together, married in January 2002, and their son was born six months later.
Aisling McLaughlin told the court that in 1999 Siobhan admitted herself to the St John Of God hospital because she was suffering from stress.
Ambulance crew evidence
Earlier, ambulance crew members from the Dublin Fire Brigade Service gave evidence of arriving at the house on the morning in question.
Station officer Michael O'Reilly told the court that minutes after arriving at the scene he told his staff not to touch anything and informed them he was calling the gardaí.
Mr O'Reilly said that he had seen an air-gun on the floor of the bedroom.
He also said Siobhan's mother, Deirdre, told him her daughter had been going through a rough patch and had been looking for tablets the night before.
John Fitzgerald, an Emergency Medical Technician, told the court that obvious signs of death, such as rigor mortis, were present when they arrived at the house so they did not attempt resuscitation.
He told the court that when they entered the bedroom the body of Siobhan Kearney was lying on its side face down towards a wardrobe.
Another Emergency Medical Technician, Mark Dempsey, told the court that a cable was wrapped around Siobhan Kearney's chest and there were marks on her neck.
The trial before Mr Justice Barry White is expected to last around four weeks.
