A man accused of murdering a 28-year-old whose body was found in the boot of his own car in an isolated Dublin laneway, has been cleared of the murder but has been found guilty of manslaughter.

The jury in the case of a man on trial for murdering a 28-year-old whose body was found in the boot of his own car, will resume its deliberations at the Central Criminal Court tomorrow morning.

A man on trial for murder has told the jury in his case that he started smoking heroin after the death of his baby girl, and was addicted to the drug when he killed 28-year-old David Sharkey.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that a 27-year-old man on trial for murder confessed to gardaí that he stabbed a father of one, “stuck” his body in a boot, and was intending on burning the car at a halting site, when he noticed gardaí and ran away.

The father of a man on trial for murdering another man whose body was discovered in the boot of his own car, has told the Central Criminal Court that his son rang him asking for a lift on the night of the killing.

The partner of a man whose body was found in the boot of his own car has told his killer's murder trial of his alleged killer that she became concerned for her boyfriend's safety after another man answered his mobile phone.

A 27-year-old man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of murdering another man whose blood-covered body was found in the boot of a car in a north Dublin laneway last year.

A 27-year-old man is due to go on trial at the Central Criminal Court tomorrow for the murder of a man who's body was discovered in a laneway in north Dublin last year.

A man was remanded in custody today charged with the murder of a man found dead in the boot of a crashed car.

A woman being held by gardaí in connection with the murder of a man whose body was found in the boot of his car has been released without charge.

Gardaí have arrested three people in connection with the death of a man whose body was found in the boot of a car in Dublin earlier this week.

Gardaí have named the young man found dead in the boot of a car in the Finglas area of Dublin on Sunday night.