The jury on the trial of four gardaí accused of locking a woman in a bathroom as her teenage son was allegedly assaulted in bed has been sent home for the night.

The jury in the trial of four gardaí accused of locking a woman in a bathroom as her teenage son was allegedly assaulted in bed has retired to consider its verdict this afternoon.

The prosecution case has closed in the trial of four gardaí accused of forcing entry to a Dublin flat and assaulting its young male occupant.

A garda sergeant has today said that a member of her unit accused of trespass and assault admitted lying about being in a Basin Street flat a week after the alleged incident.

A garda has said he heard a colleague pass comment about a “gouger deserving a slap” after an incident in which four gardai are accused of assaulting a young Dubin man.

A garda on trial for assaulting a Dublin youth denied using excessive force but said he could have handled the situation “in a more professional manner.”

A garda has said a colleague accused of assaulting a young man after forcing entry to his flat had told her not to say anything if she was asked about the alleged incident.

A GARDA said she saw a colleague wipe his baton and another wipe his knuckles after an alleged assault at a flat on Dublin’s Basin Street three years ago.

A Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury has listened to an audio recording of a phone call to the mother of a young man accusing four gardaí of assault at their flat.

A mother was locked in a bathroom while her son was beaten by four gardaí who attacked him as he slept in bed, a court heard today.

Two gardai lifted a teenager out of his bed and smacked his head against its frame after hitting him with batons, a court heard today.

Four gardaí have gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for allegedly forcing their way into a flat without a warrant and beating up a male occupant.

Four gardaí held a woman in the bathroom of her flat while they beat her teenage son in another room, a court heard today.

Gardaí in Dublin are investigating a shooting incident in the south inner city.

A man found guilty of refusing to be tested for drink driving following a car crash, was jailed for four months and given a four-year road ban, by Judge Dermot Dempsey, at the Dublin District Court today.

A Kildare mother-of-two will be sentenced later for defrauding €103,000 from Bank of Ireland over a five-year period.

Four gardaí will stand trial after allegedly assaulting a teenager, a court heard today.

FOUR gardaí were summonsed over the weekend to appear in court next month to face charges of assault and false imprisonment.

Gardaí have sealed off a street in Naas, Co Kildare, as part of an investigation into what they say is an alleged serious assault.

ROBERT knows what he’ll be doing if his employer goes to the wall.

AFTER losing one son to violence, Thomas Moloney Snr watched in disbelief yesterday as two killers who beat another of his sons to death at a filling station were given short sentences.

A 50-year-old man who stabbed an Aids patient to death in his hospital bed has been found guilty of murder and jailed for life at the Central Criminal Court.

A jury has been sent to a hotel overnight after failing to reach its verdict in the trial of a man accused of murdering an AIDS patient who was stabbed to death in his hospital bed.

A jury has retired to consider its verdict at the Central Criminal Court in the trial of a man accused of murdering an Aids patient who was stabbed to death in his hospital bed.

A 50 year-old man who stabbed a HIV-positive patient to death in St James’s Hospital told gardaí that he would "do it again" when they arrested him.

The trial of a 50-year-old father-of-four accused of stabbing a HIV-positive man to death as he lay in his hospital bed began today at the Central Criminal Court.

The trial of a 50-year-old man accused of stabbing a seriously ill man to death as he lay in his hospital bed has begun at the Central Criminal Court.

GARDAÍ are hunting two armed robbers who stole €180,000 in a raid in Dublin yesterday.