The killer of two Polish men has today told his murder trial that he stabbed the mechanics in their front garden because one of them shouted at them and he thought they had stabbed his father.

The teenager who killed two Polish mechanics by stabbing them in their heads with a screw driver, told gardaí that he had seen his co-accused carry out the stabbings.

Gardaí tonight appealed to the public for help to identify the killer of a man who was released from prison.

KENNETH BYRNE was watching television with his sister when there was a knock on the door. His mother was upstairs sleeping.