Mr Rowlands was visiting Portrush from Cambridge at the time of his death
A homeless man charged with murdering a father-of-five was in a “relationship” with him, a court has heard.
Murray appeared wearing a grey sweatshirt at Coleraine Magistrates’ Court via video-link on Thursday afternoon. “During the course of the interviews the applicant did admit that he and the deceased were in a relationship,” he said. “They had been on the streets, they were both homeless persons, and this was across the water, they were both currently living in tents side by side on the East Strand beach in Portrush.
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