A 24-year-old Dublin man has been jailed for life for the murder of his teenage girlfriend in a derelict house in Ballsbridge in Dublin last year.

Closing speeches concluded at the Central Criminal Court today in the trial of a 24-year-old Dublin man accused of murdering his 17-year-old girlfriend.

A Dublin man on trial for the murder of his 17 year-old girlfriend told gardaí he strangled her during a row after the couple had taken the drug Rohypnol and smoked hash.

A 24 year-old Dublin man who alerted gardai to a "grizzly scene" where his homeless teenage girlfriend had been “viciously strangled” was later arrested and charged with her murder, a jury at the Central Criminal Court heard today.