Struck with baseball bat after giving van ‘thump’

A man was “smacked at the back of his head” by a man with a baseball bat after he hit a parked van “a thump”, a murder trial jury has heard.

Zoltan Almasi, aged 44, with an address at Harbour View, Naas, Co Kildare, is charged with murdering Joseph Dunne at the same address on May 16, 2014.

On Monday at the Central Criminal Court, Mr Almasi pleaded not guilty to murdering Mr Dunne.