The murder of a 33-year-old French busker who was asleep when he was shot through the window of his Bray home, has been described in court today as brutal and callous.

The DNA of two men on trial for murdering a French musician in Wicklow in 2009, matched DNA found on a shotgun cartridge and clothes recovered by Gardaí in the aftermath of the fatal shooting.

The key prosecution witness in the murder trial of two men accused of shooting dead a French musician in Bray, has denied that he was involved in the killing and was even "directing" events.

Lawyers for the State have told a jury that two men on trial for murdering a French man in Bray, went to the apartment he shared with his girlfriend and shot him through the window as they slept in bed.

Two Wicklow men have gone on trial for the murder of a 32-year-old French national who was shot through the window of his duplex apartment in Bray.