Ukrainian man charged with assaulting suitcase murder victim

A 28-year-old Ukrainian asylum seeker has been remanded in custody at Dublin District Court charged with assaulting a Romanian man whose body was found 12 days later in a suitcase in the Royal Canal.

Igor Derjhack, with an address at Flat 12, 64 Mountjoy Square in Dublin, is the first person to be charged in connection with the death of 21-year-old Adrian Bestea.