Malcolm Akpaka was only eight years old and cycling in a Dublin housing estate when it is claimed his front wheel hit the pothole which was one foot deep.

A jury has heard that Dublin man Adel Essalhi died after a violent assault during which he was struck almost 60 times in the head, neck and arms with a machete-type weapon and a knife.

A Dublin man directed gardaí to the location of a buried blood-stained sweatshirt which contains DNA matching that of the man he is accused of murdering, a jury has heard.