The wife of a man who was beaten to death with an axe had to be removed from court when his killer was sentenced to nine years in prison.

The wife of a man who was beaten to death with an axe had to be removed from court when his killer was sentenced to nine years in prison.

One man was imprisoned for life while another will be sentenced next Monday for their part in killing a man during an argument over a pedigree chihuahua.

In her victim impact statement, Christopher Nevin’s wife Lisa said a part of her died the day her husband was brutally murdered.

One man was convicted of murder and a second of manslaughter for killing a man with an axe during an argument over a pedigree chihuahua.

An eye witness told the trial that Mr Nevin came screaming out of the house he was in with an axe.

Latest: A man accused of murdering a man in a row over the breeding of Chihuahuas insists he had to use force to defend his friend.

A murder accused took the stand at his trial today and said he had "lost it" when he hit the deceased multiple times with an axe.

Two men accused of an axe murder during a row over chihuahua pups had injuries to their hands and heads following the fatal fight, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A witness in a murder trial has claimed that the accused told her that his his co-accused hit their alleged victim with a hatchet.

A man was killed with a hatchet in a row over a pedigree chihuahua that failed to father enough pups, the Central Criminal Court was told.