Murder case is very weak, trial jury told

The case against a Lithuanian man charged with murdering a mother and her daughter is "not the finished article" and "very weak", his defence counsel has told a jury.

Brendan Grehan, defending, Aurimas Andruska, aged 28, also claimed no motive had been established for the crime, which he described as savage and brutal, and suggested something sinister in the finding of his client’s fingerprint on blood in the home of the victims.

The accused, a forestry worker, of Ardmoniel Heights, Killorglin, Co Kerry, denies the murders of Jolanta Lubiene, aged 27, and her daughter, Enrika, aged 8, at their home, 9 Langford Downs, Killorglin, between June 15 and 17, 2013.