Two Lithuanian men charged with murdering woman

THE trial of two Lithuanian men charged with murdering a 30-year-old woman in Wexford last year has been told that one of them hit her over the head with a golf club while the other stamped on her ribs.

Ruslanas Mineikas, aged 26, and Ricardas Dilys, aged 28, of Goodtide Harbour in Wexford town have pleaded not guilty to murdering mother-of-two Rebecca French on October 9, 2009, in Ard Na Dara, Clonard.

Mary Ellen Ring, prosecuting, opened the case for the Central Criminal Court jury yesterday. She said it was the prosecution’s case that Dilys used a golf club to inflict three fractures to the victim’s skull and that Mineikas broke a number of her ribs by kicking and stamping.