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.

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.