Thomas Martens, the man accused of murdering his son-in-law Jason Corbett, testified in court yesterday that, during the time of the Irishman’s marriage to his daughter, Molly Martens, Mr Corbett was not “his favourite person.”

A lead detective falsely told an insurance agent that Molly Martens refused to cooperate and answer questions about the death of her husband, Irish businessman Jason Corbett, an attorney for Ms Martens alleged in court.

Latets: No fingerprints were found on the 28-inch Louisville Slugger baseball bat used to hit Irish businessman Jason Corbett multiple times in the head, his murder trial has heard.

The prosecution in the case of the father and daughter charged with the murder of an Irish businessman want to present statements from a member of the 911 emergency team who said the call made about the fatal incident was “surprisingly calm”.

Prosecutors in the high-profile US trial of Molly Martens and her father Thomas Martens over the murder of her Irish husband are expected to make their opening argument on Monday, now that the week-long jury selection process has come to a conclusion.

A man charged with slamming his speeding car into pedestrians in Times Square should have been shot by police to stop him, a prosecutor said.

The prosecution in the upcoming trial of a US woman charged with killing her Irish husband has called on the court to withhold interviews with the man’s children from the jury, writes Joe Leogue.

The prosecution in the upcoming trial of a US woman charged with killing her Irish husband has called on the court to withhold interviews with the man’s children from the jury.

A woman believed to have given birth in the bathroom of her boyfriend’s apartment before tossing her newborn daughter to her death from a seventh-storey window was being held without bail on a murder charge, police and prosecutors said.

A woman accused of killing her fiance while out paddling on the Hudson River admitted tampering with his kayak and later confessed “it felt good knowing he would die,” a prosecutor said.

A former madam who bragged of doing black-market “body sculpting” on thousands of women was convicted of murder in the death of a dancer whose heart stopped after nearly half a gallon of silicone was injected into her buttocks.

A former Goldman Sachs executive accused of raping an Irish student at his luxury holiday home in Long Island in New York will go on trial in April.

Naples is a city used to terror. The Camorra run amok through its streets; drugs, violence and even murder are facts of life.

An alleged high-end prostitute accused of injecting heroin into a Google executive on his yacht in California and leaving him to die when he overdosed, has appeared in court on manslaughter and heroin charges.

An alleged high-end prostitute accused of injecting heroin into a Google executive on his yacht in California and leaving him to die when he overdosed, has appeared in court on manslaughter and heroin charges.

The Boston murder trial of Irish nanny Aisling Brady McCarthy is now likely to begin in April after her lawyers yesterday told a judge they were ready to fight the charge.

Detectives say they have solved the decades-old mystery of “Baby Hope” a little girl whose naked body was discovered inside a picnic cooler beside a Manhattan highway in 1991.

A lawyer for an Irish nanny charged over the death of a one-year-old girl accused prosecutors of presenting “false and deceptive” information to a grand jury to get a murder indictment against her.

Cavan-born nanny Aisling McCarthy Brady was last night indicted in Boston on charges of first-degree murder in connection with the death of one-year-old Rehma Sabir.

A judge dismissed the sexual assault case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn today but put the order on hold for the accuser and her lawyer to ask that a special prosecutor should be appointed.

THE lawyer for Nafissatou Diallo, the woman who accused former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault, has said he believes prosecutors plan to dismiss some or all of the charges.

The lawyer for the woman who accused former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault has said he believes prosecutors plan to dismiss some or all of the charges.

Prosecutors have serious questions about the credibility of a hotel housekeeper who has accused former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn of raping her, and they are taking the extraordinary step of seeking a substantial reduction in his bail, a person familiar with the case said today.

A JUDGE agreed yesterday to free former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn from a New York City jail on the condition he post $1 million (almost €700,00) in bail and remain under house arrest, under the watch of armed guards, at a private apartment in Manhattan.

IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn was remanded in custody today accused of a sex attack on a US hotel maid.

An evangelist who terrorised his family while preaching at revivals was sentenced to life in prison today after being convicted of killing his wife and storing her body in a freezer.

The unrepentant parents of a sick girl who died after they turned to prayer instead of getting medical help which could have saved her, were jailed for six months today.

A respected TV producer accused of trying to blackmail chat show host David Letterman for $2m (€1.4m) was desperate and deep in debt, prosecutors said.

A FORMER state employee responsible for some of Texas’s most vulnerable residents has been convicted of injuring them during orchestrated fights at a state facility for the developmentally disabled.

Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) uncovers evidence of serious infringements within one of the world’s most powerful banks and resolves to bring the institution’s boardroom to justice.

A WOMAN who took in a family recovering from Hurricane Katrina has been arrested and charged with kidnapping after authorities said she refused to return five children to their mother and went on the run with them for a month.

IN the windowless front rooms of a former day care centre in a tiny Texas community, children as young as five were fed powerful painkillers they knew as “silly pills” and forced to perform sex shows for a crowd of up to 100 adults.

A US man who played video games for hours each day was convicted of killing his 17-month-old daughter when she pulled down his Xbox console.

A US man who played video games for hours each day was convicted of killing his 17-month-old daughter when she pulled down his Xbox console.

A former psychiatric patient today pleaded not guilty to stalking US actress Uma Thurman for nearly two years.

US country music star Willie Nelson and his tour manager were spared a spell in jail after pleading guilty to possessing marijuana.

It was not until a 42-year-old prisoner took a shower that surprised jail authorities discovered that they were holding a woman instead of a man on statutory rape charges.

The Turkish chauffeur of Yoko Ono was today charged in New York with attempting to extort $2m (€1.5m) from her and remanded in custody after being refused bail.

AN HIV-positive man who knowingly exposed three women to the virus has been sentenced to 32 months in prison.

Naomi Campbell was back in court today, as she unsuccessfully tried to cut a deal on charges she threw a cell phone at her maid over a pair of missing jeans.

A British man accused of killing his wife and infant daughter lost two legal challenges this week when a judge ruled he must submit to a DNA test and denied a defence motion to dismiss the murder indictment against him.

A woman was sentenced to 15 years probation today on animal cruelty charges stemming from the discovery of nearly 200 dead and dying cats in her suburban house, according to a media report.

Singer Boy George is due to appear in a US court today to hear what community service he must perform after admitting wasting police time.