A MAN charged with murder who claims he acted in self-defence had marks to his back consistent with having been hit with an implement, the Central Criminal Court in Limerick was told yesterday.

A MAN charged with murder accepted he was responsible for stabbing his next-door neighbour to death, but was protecting himself at the time, the Central Criminal Court sitting in Limerick heard.

WHEN Brian Rossiter missed the bus from Clonmel to Wexford on a September Sunday afternoon in 2002, nobody knew that a few days later he would be lying dead in a Cork hospital after a chain of events which still remain shrouded in mystery.

A DETECTIVE Garda told Brian Rossiter’s father that Brian had taken 15 or 16 ecstasy tablets on the night before he was found in a coma in a police cell — even though toxicology tests later showed no evidence of drug taking, the inquest into the teenager’s 2002 death heard yesterday.

A chronic alcoholic who staggered up with his accomplice to a security van a second too late to rob a big cash collection has been given a chance by Judge Elizabeth Dunne to sort himself out.