Mother pleads not guilty to murdering son

A 30-year-old woman pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court today to the murder of her seven-year-old son at a house in Co Kilkenny in 2000.

Jacqueline Costello, formerly with an address at Woodlawn Grove, Waterford denies murdering Robert Costello at Deerpark, Mullinivat on 28 October 2000.

A jury of four men and eight women were sworn in to hear the trial, which begins this afternoon before Mr Justice Paul Butler.