The Central Criminal Court has heard that a 27-year-old man on trial for murder confessed to gardaí that he stabbed a father of one, “stuck” his body in a boot, and was intending on burning the car at a halting site, when he noticed gardaí and ran away.

The partner of a man whose body was found in the boot of his own car has told his killer's murder trial of his alleged killer that she became concerned for her boyfriend's safety after another man answered his mobile phone.