Dublin researcher, 39, 'stabbed to death following violent row over a late-night chess match'

A man allegedly murdered after a row over a chess match was stabbed dozens of times in what Irish police called a ‘horrific killing’ in an ‘almost unimaginable crime scene’. Tom O’Gorman, a 39-year-old researcher with the Iona Institute, was badly mutilated in the attack at his home in an affluent Dublin suburb. Police have arrested Mr O’Gorman’s Italian lodger and senior security sources said the scene was ‘like an abattoir’. It was said to be so shocking that the two officers who found the body will be sent for trauma counselling. It is understood that the arrested man’s face and clothes were covered in blood when officers arrived shortly before 2am yesterday. It is understood the arrested man – a 34-year-old who had been living with Mr O’Gorman for a number of months – was the person who alerted police. Investigating officers are not looking for anyone else in connection with the death, which will be treated as murder as soon as post-mortem examination results are confirmed. The arrested man calmly phoned them and led them into the sitting room where Mr O’Gorman’s body was. A senior source said: ‘This is a truly horrific killing and almost an unimaginable crime scene.’

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