We are stuck in a nightmare, says grieving sister of slain Jolanta

June 15, 2013. The day Evil visited an ordinary housing estate, on a normal Saturday afternoon, in a peaceful Irish town.

The case against a Lithuanian man charged with murdering a mother and her daughter is "not the finished article" and "very weak", his defence counsel has told a jury.

An alibi witness in a double murder trial has claimed gardaí offered him money to give evidence against the accused, a housemate and friend of his.

A gruesome litany of injuries suffered by a mother and daughter stabbed to death in their home last year was outlined yesterday by assistant State pathologist Margot Bolster.

A man charged with murdering a mother and her young daughter denied wanting to get rid of shoes he was wearing because they were covered in blood, his trial has heard.

A man accused of murdering a mother and daughter had Deichmann shoes with soles that matched bloodied footprints found in the Kerry home of the victims, his trial has heard.

The tip of a knife found in a pool of blood alongside the body of an eight-year-old girl and a piece of a blade found alongside her dead mother in their home were from the same knife, the trial of a man for double murder has been told.

A section of internal wall with a bloodied fingerprint removed from a murder scene was dramatically produced in a courtroom yesterday and shown to the jury.

Bloody footprints were found almost all over the semi-detached, two-storey house in which the bodies of 27-year-old Lithuanian woman Jolanta Lubiene and her eight-year-old daughter Enrika were discovered on June 16, 2013.

Around 60 men were asked to give DNA samples in the investigation into the murders of Jolanta Lubiene and her daughter Enrika.

A prosecution witness yesterday told a double murder trial he had a relationship with a woman found dead in Kerry last year.

The trial of a Lithuanian man accused of murdering a mother and daughter, also from Lithuania, at the Central Criminal Court in Tralee has been shown CCTV footage of his movements on Saturday, June 15, 2013.

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Marius Lubys, the husband of Jolanta and father of Enrika, told how they had married in 2004 in Lithuania and Enrika had been born in February 2005.

Murdered mum Jolanta Lubiene had her tickets booked to return permanently to Lithuania in July last year, her sister said yesterday.

The last recorded movements of the 27-year-old Lithuanian woman whose bloodied body was found on the kitchen floor of her home with her pet dog standing guard over her on June 16, 2013, were shown to a hushed courtroom yesterday.

A 27-year-old forestry worker accused of murdering a mother and her daughter visited her home twice in the days prior to the date of the alleged crime and had sexual contact with her, a court has heard.

A man has pleaded not guilty to the murder of a mother and daughter in Killorglin in Co Kerry last year.

A 27-year-old man will go on trial today, charged with the double murder of a mother and her young daughter at their home in Killorglin in Co Kerry last year.

A 27-year-old Lithuanian man, who has been charged with the murder of a mother and her daughter, has been sent forward for trial.

A 27-year-old man will face trial, charged with the double murder of a Lithuanian woman and her daughter at their rented home in Killorglin in Co Kerry earlier this year.

The Lithuanian man charged with the murder of a mother and her daughter in Killorglin, Co Kerry, in June, will be contesting the case against him and pleading not guilty to both counts, it was confirmed yesterday.

Gardaí yesterday revealed that 380 witness statements have been taken in the case against a 26-year-old man charged with the murder of a mother and her daughter in Killorglin, Co Kerry, in June.

A 26-year-old man has today made his seventh court appearance over the double killing of a Lithuanian mother and daughter.

Interpol is still assisting gardaí with the investigation into a double murder in Co Kerry in June, a court was told yesterday.

A 26-year old man has been further remanded in custody over the murders of a mother and her daughter in Kerry.

A man is due in court again this morning charged in connection with the murders of a mother and her young daughter in Killorglin, Co Kerry earlier this year.

A 26-year-old man has been remanded in continuing custody charged with the murders of a young mother and her eight-year-old daughter in Co. Kerry.

The 26-year-old Lithuanian man charged with the murder of a mother and her daughter in Killorglin, Co Kerry, last month appeared at Cork District Court yesterday by video link from prison.

The man charged with the double murder of a mother and daughter in Co Kerry will appear in court today.

The Lithuanian man charged with a double murder in Killorglin, Co. Kerry will appear in court again today.

Devastated parents and a distraught young father were foremost among the mourners who wept and watched as a mother and her daughter, murdered in Co Kerry, were laid to rest in a hillside grave outside the tiny Lithuanian village of Gedrimai yesterday.

The funerals of Jolanta Lubiene and her 8 year old daughter Enrika take place in Lithuania today.

The family stood silently as the plain van with blackened windows drew up.

It could be Ireland.

The bodies of a mother and daughter found dead at their home in Killorglin, Co Kerry, almost three weeks ago are to be buried in Lithuania tomorrow.

A 26-year-old Lithuanian man charged with the killings of a mother and her daughter in Co Kerry is now facing a double murder charge.

A 26-year-old man is due to appear in court today charged with the deaths of a mother and daughter in Co Kerry last month.

A 26-year-old man has been remanded in custody after he was charged last night with the double killing of a Lithuanian woman and her daughter in Co Kerry.

A 26-year-old man was last night charged with the double killing of a mother, originally from Lithuania, and her young daughter, at their home in Killorglin, Co Kerry, two weeks ago.

A 26-year-old man has been charged with the killings of a mother and daughter in Killorglin, Co Kerry.

A man in his mid 20s is due to appear before a special sitting of Killarney District Court this evening charged in relation to the murder of 27-year-old Jolanta Lubiene and her 8-year-old daughter Enrika.

Gardaí in Kerry have released a man they were questioning over the double murders of a mother and daughter in Killorglin.