Boy pleads for his life - jury told

Moments before an eight year-old boy was strangled and suffocated to death he pleaded with his mother, saying "I want to live, I want to live".

Robert Costello died shortly afterwards at his home in Deerpark, Mullinavat, Co Kilkenny on October 28, 2000. At the Central Criminal Court this morning Sgt Michael O’Sullivan was giving evidence at the third day of the trial of Jacqueline Costello who denies his murder.