A witness has told a murder trial at the Central Criminal Court that she heard a wailing sound as she passed a ruin in a Co Cork park, near to where the strangled body of 22-year-old beautician Rachel Kiely was found.

A group of friends gave evidence at the Central Criminal Court today that a young man accused of murder and rape was acting "normally" on the night a 22-year-old year woman was found dead in a parkland in Co Cork in 2000.

The mother of a 22-year-old Cork woman who was found strangled and raped in a derelict ruin in a park near her home identified the accused man in court today as the man she saw near the scene of the murder shortly after her daughter went missing.