The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of a man appealing against his conviction for the murder of a young Cork father three-and-a-half years ago.

AN EYEWITNESS in a murder trial in Cork was accused yesterday of colouring his evidence by claiming that the two accused were laughing after the attack.

The Mahon murder trial in Cork was told today that the cause of death was multiple stab wounds.

A young plasterer was attacked by two men – each armed with a knife - and they then ran away laughing, an eyewitness in the Mahon murder trial claimed at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork today.