A JURY at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin has heard how a forensic scientist found no evidence of DNA from murder accused Brian Kearney on a vacuum cleaner flex found near the body of his wife, Siobhán.

The night before Siobhan Kearney was found dead in her home she emailed her brother’s partner in Italy ending her letter by asking her to, “say a prayer for me”, a court has heard.

The father of a woman on trial for alleging he raped her was not the father of any of her children as she also claimed, a forensic scientist told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

THE gardaí who investigated the brutal rape of a 75-year-old widow were yesterday praised for their work in capturing and securing the conviction of Joseph Cummins.

A Nigerian man accused of beating his Jamaican wife to death with a lump hammer broke down in the courtroom today as his counsel were cross-examining a forensic scientist.

The DNA of murdered schoolboy Alan Higgins was found on the clothes of the teenage accused, a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.