against a stone centrepiece after being pushed over a distance of several feet. One witness saw Dunne douse the victim with fertiliser before saying: “I’m gonna burn you.”

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Police turned up but officers left after the men told them there was no problem. Later, Mr Keating was seen with a tennis ball sized swelling to the left side of his jaw, and a large swelling on his left arm. He described it to a witness as the result of ‘handbags’.

Dunne went to Mr Keating’s flat three times in the hours before the victim was found dead, in a kneeling position on the floor by his bed, at 7.25pm.

Dunne’s blood was recovered from the wall outside the room, and he later complained that the victim had broken his nose.

AWest Sacramento Police Officer Rinaldo
Monterrosa. She said she had a bump from the incident, and she showed Monterrosa
some bruises. She told him defendant had punched her on the left side of her face, left
shoulder, and left rib cage area.
         December 24, 2008: Counts 8 and 9
         On December 24, 2008, defendant was upset that the children were gone and his
life was falling apart. He started drinking. He looked out the window, noticed a car in
the parking lot, and thought that someone was spying on them or that S.L. had sent
someone to spy on him.
         Defendant came at S.L. with a knife and tried to