Man says he is 'not a murderer'

A man arrested in connection with the murder of a profoundly deaf young man began to cry while telling gardai he was "not a murderer", a garda witness has told the Central Criminal Court today.

Det Sgt Dominic Hayes of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation said he questioned the accused, William Roche, at Henry Street Station, Limerick, the day after John Carroll's body was found in an isolated boreen near Ballinahinch, Co Tipperary.