The 42-year-old’s trial was in its sixth day at the Central Criminal Court.

A murder trial has heard that a man, whose body was found in the River Bandon, died due to ligature strangulation.

The body of a man taken from the River Bandon in suspicious circumstances had black flex and lace around his neck, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

The Court of Appeal has ordered that a man be retried for one of two murders, after finding that the trial judge in one of his trials, should have simply said ‘yes’ in response to a question from the jury.

A man jailed for life for the murder of Jonathan Duke in Bandon, Co Cork, five years ago has moved to appeal his conviction.

Ciprian Grozavu strangled a happy-go-lucky Englishman in a flat in Bandon using a homemade ligature while Catherine O’Connor stabbed him repeatedly in the face with two jagged ends of a broken Manchester United mug.

The family of the Englishman murdered in Bandon said his four children would have to grow up without their father and that people capable of such violent acts as that committed by Ciprian Grozavu should not be allowed their freedom.

A knotted piece of black cloth — described as a ligature — contained the DNA of both the accused and the dead man, a forensic expert told a murder trial.

The Romanian man accused of murdering an Englishman in Bandon in 2011 said there was no time for him to stop the Cork woman who has admitted killing him.

A pathologist who observed a complex of multiple injuries on the body of a dead man found tied up in the River Bandon said it was very unlikely a person acting alone could have tied up and disposed of the body.

A murder trial witness said yesterday that the Romanian accused of murdering an Englishman in Bandon told him on the night in question that he had killed the victim by cutting his throat.

The Romanian accused of murdering an Englishman in Bandon in 2011 claimed the woman drinking with them at the time slashed the victim’s throat with a broken glass after the victim had professed his love for her.

A man accused of murder was “looking for trouble” on the night in question, a witness said on the second day of the trial in Cork yesterday.

The body of a man was found in the Bandon River tied with cable and the belt from a cardigan and rolled up in a carpet, a jury was told yesterday as a 39-year-old man went on trial for murder.

Two killers broke down in tears at opposite sides of a courtroom dock yesterday after hearing of the impact on the murdered victim’s heartbroken family.

A man and woman facing double murder charges after two bodies were recovered from a West Cork river have been returned for trial.

An Irishwoman and a Romanian man facing murder charges have been charged with a second murder in West Cork in November.

A MAN and a woman charged with the murder of a man in West Cork in November have been further remanded to appear in court again next month because of the complexity of the investigation.

A MAN and woman charged with the murder of a man whose body was recovered from the River Bandon have been further remanded in custody.

THERE was a strong Garda presence outside a court in West Cork as a man and woman charged with murder were further remanded in custody.

TWO people have been charged with the murder of a man in Bandon, Co Cork.

A man and woman have been charged with murdering a young father-of-one in Bandon, near where an Englishman has also been found killed.