A prisoner was tonight being questioned about the killing of a drug dealer in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison.

The trial of a Nigerian man accused of beating his Jamaican wife to death with a lump hammer at a Dublin apartment today reached its final stages at the Central Criminal Court.

A Nigerian man accused of beating his Jamaican wife to death with a lump hammer broke down in the courtroom today as his counsel were cross-examining a forensic scientist.

A Nigerian man who denies murdering his Jamaican his wife with a lump hammer at a Dublin apartment has accused other witnesses of lying under oath and said the prosecuting barrister knew that he had nothing to do with the killing.

A Nigerian man accused of beating his wife to death with a lump hammer has been asked by counsel for the State why he made no contact with anyone about his child after he said he left for England on the day of the killing.

A Nigerian man accused of beating his wife to death with a lump hammer broke down in the witness stand today and denied that he had killed her.

The brother-in-law of a Nigerian man alleged to have murdered his wife with a lump hammer says he identified him from a video still taken from a hardware shop in Dublin on the day before the killing. A black man was seen buying a lump hammer that day.

A solicitor’s letter written to a Nigerian man accused of murdering his wife with a lump hammer advised him that she could no longer expect to live with him due to his behaviour, a Detective Garda has told the Central Criminal Court.

A Jamaican woman allegedly bludgeoned to death with a lump hammer by her Nigerian husband was advised to get a barring order on the day she died, a solicitor has told the Central Criminal Court today.

The nephew of a Jamaican woman allegedly beaten to death with a lump hammer by her Nigerian husband has said the accused was in the Dublin apartment where her body was found on the day she died.

The young son of a Jamaican woman allegedly beaten to death with a lump hammer saw his mother being killed, a witness has told a murder trial jury.

Lawyers for a Nigerian man who denies murdering his Jamaican wife with a lump hammer today asked the victim’s sister whether she was mistaken about who had assaulted her sister in the past.

The sister of a Jamaican woman allegedly beaten to death by her husband with a lump hammer has said that during an argument with the accused, he said he was going to kill her and drink her blood.

The sister of a Jamaican woman who was allegedly beaten to death with a lump hammer has told a murder trial jury that she was frightened after the accused came to stay about a week before the killing.

A witness in the trial of a Nigerian man who denies murdering his Jamaican wife with a lump hammer has been asked about an argument between the deceased and her sister.

A sub-officer with Dublin Fire Brigade has told a murder trial jury that he found the body of the victim upside down in a child’s play pen.

A Jamaican woman giving evidence in the trial of a Nigerian man who allegedly murdered his wife with a lump hammer has strongly denied that she or the victim’s sister were having an affair with the accused.

A witness in the trial of a Nigerian man who denies murdering his wife with a lump hammer has told the jury the accused was following his wife around in the flat and calling her names the night before she died.

A jury in the trial of a Nigerian man accused of murdering his Jamaican born wife by hitting her in the head with a lump hammer has assured the judge that its members have not been contacted by anybody about the case.

A man accused of killing his wife with a lump hammer and dumping her body in a child’s cot is standing trial in Dublin.

The trial of a Nigerian man who has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his Jamaican-born wife has today opened at the Central Criminal Court.

The trial of a Nigerian man accused of murdering his wife is due to begin tomorrow at the Central Criminal Court.

A MAN wanted over his wife’s murder in Dublin agreed to be extradited from London yesterday because he wanted to see his son.

Gardaí are set to seek the extradition of a Nigerian man following the murder of his wife in Dublin two and a half years ago.

GARDAÍ are checking reports that a man wanted for questioning in connection with the fatal beating of a woman fled over the Border to the North.

GARDAÍ last night launched a manhunt after a young Jamaican woman was found bludgeoned to death in her apartment.

A former prisoner released just hours before a Jamaican woman was bludgeoned to death was today being hunted by gardai.

A murder investigation was continuing today after the death of a Jamaican woman who was found in an apartment in north Dublin.

Gardaí in Dublin last night launched a murder inquiry after the body of a 25-year-old Jamaican woman was found in an apartment in Phibsboro.