Three sons of a man murdered by his wife in Westmeath 23-years-ago have told the Central Criminal Court that the barbaric killing has left them numb with shock.

Mother-of-four Vera McGrath has been convicted of murdering her husband at their Westmeath home 23 years ago.

A 47-year-old Liverpool man has been found guilty of the manslaughter of his fiancée’s father 23 years ago, but has been cleared of his murder.

The jury has been sent home from its deliberations for the night in the cold case trial of Vera McGrath who is accused of murdering her husband 23 years ago.

The judge in the Westmeath cold-case murder trial has outlined parts of one of the defendant’s statements capable of corroborating the main witness’s evidence.

The judge in the Westmeath cold-case murder trial has been summarising the evidence for the jury.

The judge in the Westmeath cold-case murder trial has told the Central Criminal Court jury to treat the chief prosecution witness as an accomplice as she was an accessory after the fact.

The jury in the Westmeath cold-case murder trial has been told that Colin Pinder’s fate should not rest on a story spun by his co-accused and her daughter in the years following the killing.

The jury in the Westmeath cold-case murder trial has been told to treat the main prosecution witness as a potential accomplice and to take care assessing her evidence.

The Westmeath cold-case murder trial continued in the absence of the jury today, while Mr Justice John Edwards discussed legal matters with the lawyers.

A man on trial for murdering his girlfriend’s father in 1987 told gardaí in 2008 that he was glad it was coming to light, a cold-case murder trial has heard.

A woman detained in 1993 on suspicion of her husband’s murder told a garda she liked that she didn’t know if she could trust the detectives interviewing her but that she was ready to tell her story.

A woman accused of murdering her husband 23 years ago was told by gardaí in 1996 that she would not be prosecuted, when the 'missing jigsaw piece' was DNA identification.

A cold-case trial has heard that a woman accused of murdering her husband in 1987 claimed to have rowed with him a year later.

A woman charged with murdering her husband 23 years ago signed him into a mental institute two years before his death, their doctor told her trial.

The jury in the Westmeath cold-case murder trial has seen photographs of bones and teeth found in the victim’s garden years after his death, and heard that his wife dressed him in women’s clothes before telling his doctor he was mad.

A woman who claims she saw her father beaten to death 23 years ago says she used to have trouble sleeping because she could see his head on the hayfork.

The jury in a cold-case murder trial was sent home from the Central Criminal Court today so lawyers could conduct legal argument in its absence.

The chief prosecution witness in a cold-case murder trial has today denied that she helped to beat her father to death after he called her then fiancé a "nigger" or "darkie".

Veronica McGrath has denied implicating her mother in her father’s killing to disguise her own guilt at the Central Criminal Court.

A mother-of-one has told a murder trail that she saw her fiancé and mother kill her father with a spanner, slash hook, monkey wrench and lump hammer when she was 18.

A woman has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court, charged with murdering her husband at their Westmeath home 23 years ago.