A man who was dying from stab wounds to his torso refused to say how he suffered the injuries when a garda asked for a “dying declaration”, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Five members of the same traveller family kept their own “private workforce” to use as they pleased, a British court heard today.

Four members of a Traveller family in Britain have been found guilty of forcing destitute men into servitude.

Four members of an Irish Traveller family have today been found guilty in Britain of servitude and forced labour.

A 26-year-old man has been remanded in custody to appear in court again next week in connection with the murder of Jason Ryan in Wexford three months ago.

Men who said they were kept as slaves on a Travellers’ site escaped by jumping into a canal, hiding in a back garden, and confiding in a community service officer, a British jury has heard.

Three brothers and their brother-in-law have appeared in court charged with enslaving four men found at a travellers’ site in the UK.

Four Irish men from the same family will appear in court in the UK today charged with slavery offences relating to four people found at a travellers’ site.