A woman has told a Kilkenny cold case murder trial that the accused told her he killed a widow pensioner but that it was an accident.

The State Pathologist has told the jury in a cold case murder trial that she believes the fatal assault on the alleged victim was “swift”.

The firefighter who found the body of a widow in her home in Kilkenny given evidence at the trial of a man accused of her murder.

A cold-case murder trial has been told that a member of a bible study group strangled a widowed pensioner and set her Kilkenny house on fire shortly after a publican had dropped her home ‘for safety’, writes Natasha Reid.