The Court of Appeal has ordered that a man be retried for one of two murders, after finding that the trial judge in one of his trials, should have simply said ‘yes’ in response to a question from the jury.

A man jailed for life for the murder of Jonathan Duke in Bandon, Co Cork, five years ago has moved to appeal his conviction.

A young woman who died of a suspected drug overdose is the latest victim of a family fraught with problems, which include her aunt being jailed for a double murder and her mother dying in a drink-fuelled car crash.

Ciprian Grozavu strangled a happy-go-lucky Englishman in a flat in Bandon using a homemade ligature while Catherine O’Connor stabbed him repeatedly in the face with two jagged ends of a broken Manchester United mug.

The family of the Englishman murdered in Bandon said his four children would have to grow up without their father and that people capable of such violent acts as that committed by Ciprian Grozavu should not be allowed their freedom.

A knotted piece of black cloth — described as a ligature — contained the DNA of both the accused and the dead man, a forensic expert told a murder trial.

The Romanian man accused of murdering an Englishman in Bandon in 2011 said there was no time for him to stop the Cork woman who has admitted killing him.

A pathologist who observed a complex of multiple injuries on the body of a dead man found tied up in the River Bandon said it was very unlikely a person acting alone could have tied up and disposed of the body.

A murder trial witness said yesterday that the Romanian accused of murdering an Englishman in Bandon told him on the night in question that he had killed the victim by cutting his throat.

The Romanian accused of murdering an Englishman in Bandon in 2011 claimed the woman drinking with them at the time slashed the victim’s throat with a broken glass after the victim had professed his love for her.

A man accused of murder was “looking for trouble” on the night in question, a witness said on the second day of the trial in Cork yesterday.

The body of a man was found in the Bandon River tied with cable and the belt from a cardigan and rolled up in a carpet, a jury was told yesterday as a 39-year-old man went on trial for murder.

Coverage of the separate trials of Catherine O’Connor and Ciprian Grozavu was problematic as a result of an application at Grozavu’s trial to report nothing at all in case it would prejudice the trial of O’Connor.

The sister of a man who was murdered in Cork two years ago said that the family will never be able to forget - or forgive.

Two people have been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a 27-year old father of one in Bandon in Cork.

A man and woman facing double murder charges after two bodies were recovered from a West Cork river have been returned for trial.

An Irishwoman and a Romanian man facing murder charges have been charged with a second murder in West Cork in November.

A man and a woman were this afternoon charged with the murder of a man in Bandon, west Cork in November.

A MAN and a woman charged with the murder of a man in West Cork in November have been further remanded to appear in court again next month because of the complexity of the investigation.

A MAN and woman charged with the murder of a man whose body was recovered from the River Bandon have been further remanded in custody.

HUNDREDS of Chinese lanterns will be released at Bandon Bridge in West Cork tomorrow night during a ceremony in memory of a local father of one and a British father of four who died in the town last month.

THERE was a strong Garda presence outside a court in West Cork as a man and woman charged with murder were further remanded in custody.

A FATHER of one, whose body was recovered from the River Bandon in West Cork, longed for a life without violence, his Requiem Mass heard over the weekend.

A ROMANIAN had an assault case listed at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.

Gardaí in Cork are today continuing to investigate two separate murders in Bandon.

Gardaí investigating the death of a man in Bandon, Co Cork have appealed for information on the family and background of the deceased.

The investigation into the death of a second man in Bandon, Co Cork, has been upgraded to a murder inquiry, gardaí said.

Gardaí in Cork will hold a case conference this morning following the discovery of a second man's body in a river in Bandon yesterday.

TWO people have been charged with the murder of a man in Bandon, Co Cork.

A man and woman have been charged with murdering a young father-of-one in Bandon, near where an Englishman has also been found killed.

A large crowd gathered outside Bandon District Court in Co Cork tonight as a woman and man were charged with murder following the death of a 27-year-old man in the town at the weekend.