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 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 Romanian man charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend in Dublin last year told gardaí that she had cut his throat, not the other way around.

A FORENSIC scientist has told the Eamonn Lillis murder trial that she found his wife’s blood inside the sleeve of a hoodie he said he was wearing when he found her unconscious, consistent with it being put on over an arm wet with her blood.

THE sixth day of the Eamonn Lillis murder trial was dominated by evidence from several forensic scientists who had examined clothing and other items taken from the family home in Howth where his wife, Celine Cawley, had been fatally attacked on December 15, 2008.

A forensic scientist has told the Eamonn Lillis murder trial that she found his wife’s blood inside the sleeve of a hoodie he said he was wearing when he found her unconscious, consistent with it being put on over an arm wet with her blood.