A 28-year-old Limerick man told detectives that the man he is accused of murdering had raped him nine years previously, a jury was told at the Central Criminal Court today.

A caretaker of a sheltered housing complex for the elderly today told how he came face-to-face with the assailant of a resident when he investigated a night-time panic alarm.

An elderly man found dead in his sheltered accommodation home died from massive internal bleeding after being kicked and stamped in the stomach, a murder trial jury heard at the Central Criminal court today.

A 25-year-old man has appeared before Limerick District Court charged with murdering a 74-year-old man in the city last week.