BOTH sides have given their closing speeches at the Central Criminal Court in the trial of a Cork painter charged with murdering a local widow.

A Turkish barber who stabbed his ex-partner and left her to die in front of their one-year-old son before cutting his own throat and wrists was “inconsolable” over his child’s broken finger, a court has heard.

A Nigerian man accused of beating his wife to death with a lump hammer broke down in the witness stand today and denied that he had killed her.

A Jamaican woman allegedly bludgeoned to death with a lump hammer by her Nigerian husband was advised to get a barring order on the day she died, a solicitor has told the Central Criminal Court today.

A Jamaican woman giving evidence in the trial of a Nigerian man who allegedly murdered his wife with a lump hammer has strongly denied that she or the victim’s sister were having an affair with the accused.