A drug addict who terrorised 13 pensioners in their homes, assaulting and falsely imprisoning some, will be sentenced next month.

A 42-year-old Dublin man who got involved in a fight to protect his friend has been acquitted of the murder of a father-of-two by a jury at the Central Criminal Court today.

Mr Justice Paul Carney has begun charging the jury in the Central Criminal Court trial of a 42-year-old Dublin man accused of murdering a father of two in north Dublin three years ago.

A Dublin man accused of murdering a father of two in north Dublin three years ago told gardaí he did not think he had stabbed the victim.

A witness at the Central Criminal Court trial of a Dublin man accused of killing a 32-year-old father of two in north Dublin three years ago, has denied that he lied about having a knife on the night.