A Nigerian man accused of beating his wife to death with a lump hammer broke down in the witness stand today and denied that he had killed her.

A solicitor’s letter written to a Nigerian man accused of murdering his wife with a lump hammer advised him that she could no longer expect to live with him due to his behaviour, a Detective Garda has told the Central Criminal Court.

A Jamaican woman allegedly bludgeoned to death with a lump hammer by her Nigerian husband was advised to get a barring order on the day she died, a solicitor has told the Central Criminal Court today.

The young son of a Jamaican woman allegedly beaten to death with a lump hammer saw his mother being killed, a witness has told a murder trial jury.

Lawyers for a Nigerian man who denies murdering his Jamaican wife with a lump hammer today asked the victim’s sister whether she was mistaken about who had assaulted her sister in the past.

The sister of a Jamaican woman who was allegedly beaten to death with a lump hammer has told a murder trial jury that she was frightened after the accused came to stay about a week before the killing.

A witness in the trial of a Nigerian man who denies murdering his Jamaican wife with a lump hammer has been asked about an argument between the deceased and her sister.

A sub-officer with Dublin Fire Brigade has told a murder trial jury that he found the body of the victim upside down in a child’s play pen.

A witness in the trial of a Nigerian man who denies murdering his wife with a lump hammer has told the jury the accused was following his wife around in the flat and calling her names the night before she died.

A jury in the trial of a Nigerian man accused of murdering his Jamaican born wife by hitting her in the head with a lump hammer has assured the judge that its members have not been contacted by anybody about the case.

A man accused of killing his wife with a lump hammer and dumping her body in a child’s cot is standing trial in Dublin.

Gardaí in Dublin have launched a murder investigation following the discovery of a woman's body in a flat near the Royal Canal Bank in Phibsboro earlier today.