A man jailed for life for the murder of Jonathan Duke in Bandon, Co Cork, five years ago has moved to appeal his conviction.

Ciprian Grozavu strangled a happy-go-lucky Englishman in a flat in Bandon using a homemade ligature while Catherine O’Connor stabbed him repeatedly in the face with two jagged ends of a broken Manchester United mug.

The family of the Englishman murdered in Bandon said his four children would have to grow up without their father and that people capable of such violent acts as that committed by Ciprian Grozavu should not be allowed their freedom.

A 37-year-old Cork mother-of-three has been sentenced to life in prison for murder for a second time this year.

A woman in jail for murder has received another life sentence for killing John Forrester whose body was found trussed up with cable ties in the River Bandon, two years ago.

Coverage of the separate trials of Catherine O’Connor and Ciprian Grozavu was problematic as a result of an application at Grozavu’s trial to report nothing at all in case it would prejudice the trial of O’Connor.

The family’s victim impact statement read by the deceased’s sister, Cindy Duke:

Two killers broke down in tears at opposite sides of a courtroom dock yesterday after hearing of the impact on the murdered victim’s heartbroken family.

The sister of a man who was murdered in Cork two years ago said that the family will never be able to forget - or forgive.

Two people have been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a 27-year old father of one in Bandon in Cork.

A 37-year-old woman has been found guilty of the murder of father of one Jonathan Duke in Bandon nearly two years ago.

A soundtrack of the circumstances surrounding the murder of 27-year-old Jonathan Duke was available to the jury complete with noise from an upstairs apartment, the dragging of a body down the stairs, comments by the accused woman, and her laughing like a hyena afterwards.

The woman accused of murdering a man in Bandon was laughing hysterically in the Garda station holding cell within hours of her arrest, the last prosecution witness in her trial testified yesterday.

The woman accused of murdering a man in Bandon had blood of the victim under a fingernail on her right hand, a forensic scientist told a judge and jury yesterday.

The woman accused of murdering a man in Bandon, Co Cork, had been drinking three to four bottles of vodka a day around that time, she told investigating gardaí.

The woman accused of murdering a man in Bandon was found by gardaí with blood on her hands and feet and she told officers she had taken magic mushrooms, the jury was told yesterday.

A murder trial jury yesterday heard a recording of a 999 call from a man who claimed to have seen a body being thrown over the balcony outside his building.

A 37-year-old woman yesterday denied murdering a 27-year-old man whose strangled body with more than 60 wounds was found dead in the Bandon River in Nov 2011.

A man and woman facing double murder charges after two bodies were recovered from a West Cork river have been returned for trial.

An Irishwoman and a Romanian man facing murder charges have been charged with a second murder in West Cork in November.

A man and a woman were this afternoon charged with the murder of a man in Bandon, west Cork in November.

Murder victim John Forrester, whose body was found in the River Bandon in November, had found peace in the weeks before his death, his family was told yesterday.

A murdered Englishman whose body was dumped in the Bandon river last November will finally be laid to rest on Monday.

A MAN and a woman charged with the murder of a man in West Cork in November have been further remanded to appear in court again next month because of the complexity of the investigation.

THE funeral of an Englishman murdered and dumped in a river will take place in Bandon when his body is released.

A MAN and woman charged with the murder of a man whose body was recovered from the River Bandon have been further remanded in custody.

HUNDREDS of Chinese lanterns will be released at Bandon Bridge in West Cork tomorrow night during a ceremony in memory of a local father of one and a British father of four who died in the town last month.

THERE was a strong Garda presence outside a court in West Cork as a man and woman charged with murder were further remanded in custody.

A FATHER of one, whose body was recovered from the River Bandon in West Cork, longed for a life without violence, his Requiem Mass heard over the weekend.

The funeral will take place in Cork this afternoon of 27-year-old Bandon man Jonathan Duke, whose body was pulled from the River Bandon on Sunday evening last.

GARDAÍ investigating the murder of a British man in West Cork have traced his relatives in England.

Gardaí investigating the recent killings in Bandon have made contact with the family of John Forrester in England, who have confirmed his identity.

GARDAÍ investigating the murder of a man in West Cork last night issued an appeal for help in tracing his final movements.

Gardaí in Cork are today continuing to investigate two separate murders in Bandon.

Gardaí investigating the death of a man in Bandon, Co Cork have appealed for information on the family and background of the deceased.

The investigation into the death of a second man in Bandon, Co Cork, has been upgraded to a murder inquiry, gardaí said.

Gardaí in Cork will hold a case conference this morning following the discovery of a second man's body in a river in Bandon yesterday.

TWO people have been charged with the murder of a man in Bandon, Co Cork.

Bandon in West Cork is in mourning after the bodies of two men, Jonathan Duke and John Forrester, were recovered from the river, writes Sean O’Riordan.

A man and woman have been charged with murdering a young father-of-one in Bandon, near where an Englishman has also been found killed.

A large crowd gathered outside Bandon District Court in Co Cork tonight as a woman and man were charged with murder following the death of a 27-year-old man in the town at the weekend.

A man and woman have been charged with murder at Bandon District Court after the death of a 27-year-old man in the town at the weekend.

Two people are due before a special sitting of Bandon District Court in Cork this evening in connection with the death of a man whose body was pulled from the River Bandon on Sunday.

Gardaí investigating the murder of Jonathan Duke in Cork have found a second body.