The homeless man whose body was found in the rubbish chute of an apartment block suffered no fatal injuries beforehand and died as a result of asphyxia and lack of oxygen, a pathologist has said.

The man on trial for murder told gardaí more than a week after the deceased was found in the rubbish chute of an apartment complex that he prayed for him every day.

A witness in a murder trial testified yesterday that she laughed when the accused told her over the phone that he assaulted someone and threw him down a drainpipe because she thought it was impossible.

A murder trial witness said the accused first jokingly called a 59-year-old homeless man a paedophile and a kiddy-fiddler, then said it seriously and assaulted him, dragged him out of a flat, and came back saying “he has gone down the drain”.

Images of the late Liam Manley walking around the streets of Cork on Saturday night/Sunday morning, in the hours before he died, were shown to the jury on the opening day of the murder trial.

The man accused of murdering a homeless 59-year-old, whose body was found in an apartment complex rubbish chute, told a friend that night “the man was down the drain”, the prosecution claimed on the opening day of the trial yesterday.

A jury of seven women and five men was sworn in yesterday for the trial of a man accused of murdering a homeless man whose body was discovered in a refuse chute of an apartment building in May 2013.

A 27-year-old man is due to go on trial today charged with the murder of a Cork man whose body was found in a refuse chute in an apartment block.

A murder charge was brought yesterday in the case where the body of a homeless man was discovered in a refuse chute of an apartment building in May.

A 27-year-old Cork man has been charged with the murder of a homeless man whose body was found dumped in a refuse chute in the city earlier this year.

A 26-year-old man was charged with a count of assault causing harm following the investigation into the body of a homeless man found dumped in a refuse chute in Cork earlier this month.

A 26-year-old man has been remanded in custody after he was charged with assaulting a homeless man whose body was found dumped in a refuse chute in Cork earlier this month.

A 27-year-old man is due to appear in court in Cork this morning, in connection with an assault on a man whose body was found in a refuse chute in an apartment complex in the city.

A man in his 20s has been arrested in connection with the murder of a 58-year-old man whose body was found in a waste chute in Cork city centre.

Gardaí investigating the manslaughter of a homeless man whose body was found in a refuse chute in Cork last week have arrested a 27 year old man.

Gardaí have confirmed the identity of the man whose body was found dumped in a refuse chute in a Cork city apartment complex on Monday evening.