The partner of a man whose body was found in a duvet days after his death has told a murder trial jury that the accused said he had cut off the deceased’s penis.

A 38-year-old Dublin man has gone on trial charged with the murder of a man whose body was found wrapped in a duvet in the days following his death.

A jury was today asked to consider the evidence in the case of a man who was described as being butchered in his own home.

The girlfriend of a man who was stabbed to death in their Dublin flat has told a court his killer fancied her and was trying to get rid of the competition.