A South African man has been found guilty of murdering his Irish-born wife at their home in Co Meath shortly before Christmas, 2004 at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin.

The son of a woman whose husband is on trial for her murder, has told a trial in the Central Criminal Court that his mother was afraid of his father.

The trial of a South African man accused of murdering his Irish born wife has heard the couple’s children that they never saw their father strike their mother.