A pregnant mother-of-four was strangled to death in her home while her children spent the night at their father’s house, a murder trial has heard.

A sock containing the saliva and blood of the alleged victim in a murder trial might have been in her mouth, a forensic scientist told the Central Criminal Court today.

The neighbour of the alleged victim in a murder trial told the Central Criminal Court that she heard wailing coming from the woman’s house on the morning she died.

The trial of a Derry man accused of the murder of a 30-year-old woman in the city last year has opened and been adjourned for a day at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin.