A double murder trial was adjourned today after a juror was reported ill.

A jury in the trial of a Chinese national accused of the double murder of a student couple in Dublin two years ago has been shown video footage of the accused being interviewed by gardaí in custody.

A garda witness has told a double murder trial that the accused man identified himself on video footage that the prosecution alleges links him to the crime.

Gardaí sourced a Chinese policeman through Interpol to act as a translator during their interrogation of a man accused of double murder, a jury heard today.

Fingerprint evidence from the Garda Technical Bureau has never been wrong, a bureau member claimed today as he was cross-examined in a double murder trial.

Two former flatmates of a young couple who were allegedly strangled and then had their bodies burned have identified a man accused of the double murder as the person shown on CCTV footage of the entrance to the apartment.

The trial of a 25-year-old man for the double murder of a student couple in Dublin two years ago has entered what is expected to be a week of legal argument.

A video image shows a man accused of strangling a student couple and later setting fire to their apartment with one of them in the apartment building on the day the prosecution alleges he strangled them, a witness has testified.

A man on trial for double murder was "on the verge of tears" when he arrived at the scene of the killings the morning after, a garda witness has told a murder trial jury.

A young man accused of the double murder of two friends whose burnt remains were found in Dublin in March 2001 told a witness he had lost £1,000 playing 'Blackjack' in an amusement arcade in the city.

A housemate of a man accused of the double murder of a student couple has identified the accused in video footage outside the apartment on the date the State alleges the couple were murdered.

One of two men picked out at an identity parade is the man accused of the double murder of two Chinese students in an apartment in Dublin, a jury has heard.

The father of a Chinese student whose charred remains were found along with a female friend in a Dublin apartment told a Central Criminal Court jury that before the killings, he decided Ireland was an "unsuitable environment" for his son, and had told him to prepare to transfer his studies to Australia.

Gardai in Dublin have launched a murder investigation after a post mortem revealed a young Asian couple found dead in their burnt-out flat were strangled.