The trial of a man accused of murdering a pregnant woman has heard that the man admits killing the woman.

A man whose conviction for murdering his pregnant ex-girlfriend was quashed in March faces a third trial for her killing, despite an appeal by his lawyers that a second retrial would not be justified.

A man whose conviction for murdering his pregnant ex-girlfriend was quashed in March faces a third trial for her killing despite an appeal by his lawyers that a second retrial would not be justified.

A man who had been jailed for life for the murder of his pregnant ex-girlfriend has had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal.

A man who murdered his pregnant ex-girlfriend must wait to hear whether his appeal against conviction has been successful.

A father of one who strangled the mother of his unborn son has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of her murder.

A 39-year-old Derry man has today been convicted of murdering his pregnant ex-girlfriend.

A sock containing the saliva of the alleged victim in a murder trial was discovered by the bed where the pregnant mother-of-four was found strangled.

A man charged with murdering the mother of his unborn son threatened to smash a phone over her head a couple of weeks before she died, his trial has heard.

The neighbour of a pregnant mother-of-four strangled to death in her home heard "wailing" coming from her house on the night of the killing, a murder trial has heard.

A pregnant mother-of-four was strangled to death in her home while her children spent the night at their father’s house, a murder trial has heard.

The jury in the trial of a Derry man charged with murdering his pregnant ex-girlfriend has gone home for a second night after a day and a half deliberating.

The jury in the trial of a Derry man charged with murdering his pregnant ex-girlfriend will resume deliberating tomorrow morning.

The defendant in a murder trial could not explain why his victim’s front door and clothes were damaged or why she was covered in bruises the morning he strangled her.

A murder accused said he snapped and grabbed the dead woman's throat when she told him the child she was carrying was not his and that she was going to have an abortion.

A Derry man on trial for the murder of the 30-year-old mother of his unborn son threatened to smash a phone over her head a fortnight before she was killed.

A sock containing the saliva and blood of the alleged victim in a murder trial might have been in her mouth, a forensic scientist told the Central Criminal Court today.

The Derry man on trial at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of the mother of his unborn son has admitted strangling her, the court has heard.

THE neighbour of the alleged victim in a murder trial told the Central Criminal Court that she heard wailing coming from the woman’s house on the morning she died.

The neighbour of the alleged victim in a murder trial told the Central Criminal Court that she heard wailing coming from the woman’s house on the morning she died.

The victim in a murder trial told her killer she wanted him out of her life weeks before she died, and he threatened to take her to court for access to their unborn child, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

The trial of a Derry man accused of the murder of a 30-year-old woman in the city last year has opened and been adjourned for a day at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin.