Man pleads not guilty to murder of prostitute

State claims former soldier killed woman in a bog four years ago because she was blackmailing him

The trial of a retired member of the defence forces accused of murdering a woman in Co Westmeath four years ago has heard that he told a man he had killed her.

Jimmy Devaney, aged 66, of Millbrook Avenue, Monksland, Athlone, has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to murdering Marie Greene in Westmeath on February 13, 2011.