Man admits killing ex-wife's partner in bloody attack but denies murder
A man armed himself with an axe, a hunting knife and a kitchen knife before stabbing his former wife's new partner to death in a Brisbane home, a court has been told.
Osmond Roy Greig has admitted killing Daryl Ross Corcoran in Alexandra Hills on November 22, 2016.
On Monday, he pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court in Brisbane to his manslaughter but denied the attack, which left Mr Corcoran with 86 wounds, was murder.
The Crown rejected Mr Greig's manslaughter plea, opting to present evidence in an attempt to prove there was intent to kill.
During her opening address, prosecutor Dzenita Balic said Greig used an axe to break a window to gain entry to the Alexandra Hills house where his three children, former wife Maya and Mr Corcoran were sleeping.
The woman tried to use her telephone to physically stop Mr Greig.
The court was told after stabbing Mr Corcoran, most likely with the hunting knife, Mr Greig turned it on himself.
"He cut his arms, legs and his own throat - like he did to Daryl Corcoran," Ms Balic said.
The jury was shown a photo of the blood-soaked carpet and walls of the bedroom in which Mr Corcoran died.
"He was stabbed over and over and over and over. Maya Greig told the children to run," Ms Balic said.
Earlier on the night of the killing Ms Greig sent her former husband a text message "effectively telling him that things have to move on".
She gave evidence via video link that she had travelled in August, 2016, to Tamworth, where she met up with Mr Corcoran, who she had been friends with since school, and started a "romantic" relationship.
On Father's Day that year she told her then husband she was seeing Mr Corcoran, the court heard.
"I don't think he was shocked because I was fairly distanced towards him," she said.
The trial before Justice Soraya Ryan is expected run for seven to eight days.
AAP