A shop worker has told a jury she heard a 21-year-old woman accused of the murder of another young woman in Co Meath saying 'I'll slice her up' on the night of the incident.
Kelly Noble, 21, from Seaview in Laytown, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of 19-year-old Emma McLoughlin outside a supermarket in Laytown on 2 June last year.
Deborah Cantwell, 19, who was working in Pat's Supermarket on the night, described how Kelly Noble came in to do some shopping just after 9pm.
A short time later Emma McLoughlin came into the shop. She was drunk and repeatedly asked Ms Noble why she had kicked her in the stomach when she was pregnant three years ago.
Ms Cantwell said she saw Ms Noble's lip bleeding after she had been hit by Ms McLoughlin.
She then heard Kelly on the phone and heard her mention something about a blade. She said Kelly was in a bad mood and after the phone call she told Ms Cantwell ‘I'm going to slice her up’.
Another witness, Thomas Vickers, who had gone to the supermarket to do his shopping, described seeing Kelly Noble and Emma McLoughlin outside the supermarket.
He said Ms Noble had a kitchen knife held down by her side in her right hand.
Miriam Phelan, whose partner is a second cousin of Kelly Noble's and who lives in the same estate, said Ms Noble had flagged her down as she was driving to work on the night of 2 June.
Ms Phelan said Kelly said she had done something terrible – that she had stabbed Emma McLoughlin.
Ms Phelan said she was very 'shook up' and was distressed and shaking from head to toe.
She asked what she was going to do and said she thought she had killed her. Ms Phelan said her main concern was for Ms Noble's two young children, who were very traumatised.
