The jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering a father of five in Tyrellstown has heard how the victim's body was set alight.

There have been dramatic scenes in court today at the conviction of a 40-year-old Dublin man for the murder of Adel Essalhi.

The jury in the Central Criminal Court trial of a Dublin man accused of the murder of Adel Essalhi have been urged to consider the evidence of a number of “silent witnesses” in the case.

A witness has told the Central Criminal Court that a Dublin man accused of the murder of Adel Essalhi said he had burned the deceased man’s body and told her there was “nothing like the smell of a dead body”.

A witness has told the Central Criminal Court that a Dublin man accused of the murder of Adel Essalhi bragged about the killing and claimed “not even people walking their dogs” would find the body.

A jury has heard that Dublin man Adel Essalhi died after a violent assault during which he was struck almost 60 times in the head, neck and arms with a machete-type weapon and a knife.

A Dublin man directed gardaí to the location of a buried blood-stained sweatshirt which contains DNA matching that of the man he is accused of murdering, a jury has heard.

A Dublin man accused of the murder of Adel Essalhi gave gardaí directions to where he said the body of a missing person had been dumped in Tyrrelstown, his Central Criminal Court trial has heard.

The trial of a 40-year-old man accused of the murder of Adil Essalhi will begin today.

The 21-year-old woman arrested as part of investigation into the death of Adil Essalhi and detained at Blanchardstown garda station has tonight been released without charge.

A 21-YEAR-OLD woman was arrested last night in connection with the brutal murder of a man in Tyrellstown in west Dublin who had his throat cut.

A drunken father-of-three who told gardai he intended to use a dumbbell bar to "bleedin' kill" a man that a female friend had accused of sexually assaulting her has been jailed for a year at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.