Uncle told gardai he strangled his nephew

A 20-year-old Louth man accused of the murder of his infant nephew told gardai that he had strangled the child before trussing him up with rope and dropping him off a railway bridge into the water below, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

David Brennan, aged 20 of Marsh Road, Drogheda, pleaded not guilty to the murder of 17-month-old Jack Everitt Brennan at or near Marsh Road on February 29 or March 1 2000.