Cork man killed with a toaster

A Cork man who died in a derelict house in the city in 1997 received multiple blows to the head from weapons that included a toaster, a murder trial jury has heard.

William Carroll, aged 52, of no fixed address, pleaded not guilty to the murder of Thomas Harte, aged 40, of Allen’s Square, Ballymacthomas, Cork at a derelict house on Leitrim Street, Cork city between May 19 - 20, 1997.