An inquest into the death of a 22-year-old man in Bray last August has recorded a verdict of unlawful killing.
The inquest found Sebastian Creane died from a knife wound to the heart.
His brother and girlfriend were also stabbed during the same incident.
22-year-old Shane Clancy, who stabbed all three, died from self-inflicted wounds on the same night.
Today’s inquest in Wicklow town was told by Detective Inspector Frank Keenaghan from Bray Garda Station, that Sebastian Creane and his girlfriend Jennifer Hannigan were in the Creane family home in Cuala Grove in Bray in the early hours of 16 August 2009.
Shane Clancy, Jennifer’s former boyfriend, who had been there earlier returned to the garden of the house with knives he bought in a 24-hour Dunnes Stores supermarket.
Det Inspector Keenaghan described how Mr Clancy told Jennifer Hannigan on the phone that he had done something stupid and Sebastian Creane, who saw Mr Clancy in the garden, opened the door to see if he could help him.
Shane Clancy then stabbed Sebastian Creane in the chest.
The wounded Mr Creane went upstairs and told his brother that he had stabbed and then lay on the ground in his parent’s bedroom.
In her deposition, Jennifer Hannigan described how Shane Clancy then attacked her. She fell over the couch in the sitting room of the house and Mr Clancy then stabbed her in the back. She fled from the house, ringing her father on her mobile as she ran, and jumped into the neighbour's garden to raise the alarm.
Dylan Creane, Sebastian's brother, described how he had awoken him shouting he had been stabbed.
Dylan said he went downstairs where he was attacked by Shane Clancy and stabbed nine times. Mr Clancy then left and Dylan returned to his parent’s bedroom where Sebastian lay in a pool of blood. He said he kissed his brother and told him to hang on.
The inquest later heard that paramedics attempted to revive Sebastian but could not.
After a brief consideration of the evidence the jury gave a verdict of unlawful killing, the cause of death being a knife wound to the heart.
After the coroner recorded the verdict he allowed the Creane family solicitor to read a statement on their behalf.
In the statement, the Creanes described the inquest and that of Shane Clancy three weeks ago as ‘gruesome’ and ‘futile’ and said they did nothing to advance the knowledge of the facts.
They particularly took issue with evidence at Mr Clancy’s inquest which they claimed ‘ascribed fault to prescribed medication’ Mr Clancy had been taking.
