A 50-year-old man who stabbed a HIV-positive patient to death in St James’s Hospital told gardai that he would "do it again" when they arrested him.

The trial of a 50-year-old father-of-four accused of stabbing a HIV-positive man to death as he lay in his hospital bed began today at the Central Criminal Court.

The trial of a 50-year-old man accused of stabbing a seriously ill man to death as he lay in his hospital bed has begun at the Central Criminal Court.