A Ukrainian was jailed for three years today in connection with the death of a man whose body was found in a suitcase dumped in a canal.

The trial of a Ukranian man accused of murdering a Romanian man and dumping his body in a suitcase in a Dublin canal came to an abrupt end today in the Central Criminal Court when the accused changed his plea.

The trial of a Ukrainian man accused of the murder of a Romanian national whose body was found in a suitcase in the Royal Canal in Dublin continued in the absence of the jury at the Central Criminal Court today.

A man whose bloodied body was found dumped in a suitcase in a Dublin canal was murdered in a contract "beating" that went too far, a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A 28-year-old Ukrainian asylum seeker has been remanded in custody at Dublin District Court charged with assaulting a Romanian man whose body was found 12 days later in a suitcase in the Royal Canal.