A Central Criminal Court jury will resume deliberations tomorrow in the trial of a murder accused, who ‘chopped’ his friend up with a chainsaw after shooting him in the defendant’s back yard.

A Dublin father-of-one, whose dismembered remains were found in a canal, had transferred more than E50,000 into his alleged murderer’s account, a court has heard.

A 48-year-old man has been remanded in custody charged with the murder of Kenneth O'Brien whose dismembered body was found in a suitcase in a canal in Co Kildare in January.