The Court of Criminal Appeal has set aside the conviction and ordered the re-trial of a South African man jailed for the murder of his Irish born wife at their home in Co Meath shortly before Christmas 2004.

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.

The trial of a South African man accused of murdering his Irish-born wife heard that the accused told another man that he was going to kill his wife days before she was found dead at their home.