A Wexford man on trial for the murder of his friend claims he would not have let the 37-year-old man die, even if the man wanted to, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

A Wexford murder trial has heard that the emergency services were turned away from an Enniscorthy building the night before a 37-year-old man was found dead there.

A 36-year-old Wexford man has gone on trial for the murder of his friend at his apartment over two years ago.

A 36-year-old Wexford man has pleaded not guilty to murdering another man in the county more than two years ago.

Men who said they were kept as slaves on a Travellers’ site escaped by jumping into a canal, hiding in a back garden, and confiding in a community service officer, a British jury has heard.

A man charged in connection with alleged slavery offences following a police raid at a Travellers' site in Leighton Buzzard has been remanded in custody by magistrates.

A 30-year-old pregnant woman charged with slavery offences was granted bail when she appeared in court in Britain today.

A woman has been charged with conspiring to hold people as slaves and forcing them to carry out work at a travellers’ site, police said.

THREE brothers and their brother-in-law were remanded in custody yesterday after appearing in court charged with enslaving four men at a Travellers’ site in Britain.

Three brothers and their brother-in-law have appeared in court charged with enslaving four men found at a travellers’ site in the UK.

Four Irish men from the same family will appear in court in the UK today charged with slavery offences relating to four people found at a travellers’ site.

WORKERS are being held in slave conditions in Irish homes and businesses because of a lack of legislation to either protect them or prosecute their enslavers.

SOME of the Travellers staying at the British caravan site at the centre of a slavery investigation are normally resident in Ireland and have claimed no knowledge of what was going on under their noses.

Protesters are gathering today to demand the installation of traffic lights on the road where a 12-year-old Traveller was killed.