Both sides have given their closing speeches at the Central Criminal Court in the trial of a Cork painter charged with murdering a local widow.

Anne Corcoran’s killer was being pursued by his credit union for more than €10,000 of bad debt, his murder trial has heard.

Widow Anne Corcoran’s killer laughed as he told detectives about driving her car through a garda checkpoint less than two days after burying her in a shallow grave, his murder trial heard today.

Oliver Hayes attended his camera club and drinks afterwards while Anne Corcoran lay dead in his house, his murder trial heard.

ANNE CORCORAN’s killer told gardaí that he had never met his victim, but he had targeted her because she was living alone and on Sunday, January 18, last year, he decided he would rob the 60-year-old widow her at her Co Cork farmhouse.

Anne Corcoran’s killer targeted the 60-year-old widow because she was a woman living alone, the Central Criminal Court heard.

THE man accused of murdering Anne Corcoran travelled to and from work with her husband for a number of months, 20 years before attacking her.

Anne Corcoran’s killer travelled to and from work with her husband for a number of months 20 years before attacking her.

MURDER accused Oliver Hayes denied that he knew Bandon woman Anne Corcoran in reply to a Garda questionnaire circulated in the west Cork town following her disappearance in early 2009.

Gardaí first suspected Oliver Hayes in the disappearance of Cork widow Anne Corcoran after officers recognised his distinctive walk in CCTV footage taken when her bank account was being cleared out, it emerged today.

A 50-year-old man abducted a 60-year-old widow from her home, brought her to his house in the boot of her car, beat her unconscious and left her to die while he cleaned out her bank account before going on a skiing holiday, a court heard.

A date has been set for the trial of a 49 year-old man accused of murdering a 60 year-old woman whose body was found buried in woodland in west Cork earlier this year.

A date has been set for the trial of a 49-year-old man accused of murdering a 60-year-old woman whose body was found buried in woodland in west Cork earlier this year.

THE High Court has heard that a man held in custody on a charge of false imprisonment is to be also charged with the murder of west Cork widow Anne Corcoran in January.

THE complete Garda file on the investigation into the killing of a Co Cork widow is to be delivered to the DPP next Friday.

A 49-year-old man, charged with false imprisonment of West Cork widow Ann Corcoran, was remanded in custody today.

Co Cork widow Ann Corcoran has been laid to rest following funeral mass near her home in Kilbrittain this morning.

Gardaí say the body found in a remote woods in west Cork yesterday is that of missing woman Anne Corcoran.

Gardaí are expected to identify the body found in a wooded area of west Cork yesterday as that of missing woman Anne Corcoran.

A man was tonight charged in connection with the disappearance of a widow after a body was discovered in a rural woodland.