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| David O'Sullivan admits Charmaine Macmuiris Christmas Day murder | |
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| A 28-year-old man has admitted murdering his girlfriend who was found dead at his home on Christmas day. | |
| David Thomas O'Sullivan appeared at Swansea Crown Court charged with stabbing Charmaine Macmuiris, 37, in Carmarthen. | |
| O'Sullivan previously denied killing the mother-of-three but changed his plea to guilty at the start of his trial on Monday. | |
| The bricklayer will be sentenced later. | |
| The court heard Mrs Macmuiris, also from Carmarthen, had gone to boyfriend O'Sullivan's home to celebrate Christmas. | |
| Relatives raised the alarm after she failed to turn up later that day for a family meal with her three children and new grandchildren. | |
| Mrs Macmuiris was looking forward to celebrating Christmas with her three children Hannah, 19, Ruby, 14, and Keilan, 11, along with toddler granddaughter Pixie, a previous hearing was told. | |
| But she was found dead in his home in on Christmas morning. | |
| At the time of her death, her parents John and Christine said: "As a family we are heartbroken and devastated by the loss of our beautiful daughter. | |
| "Our lives will never, ever be the same again. | |
| "Charmaine was taken from her children, grand-child and all her family in the most cruel of ways on Christmas Day. | |
| "No family should ever have to face such a tragedy." |