Jury expected to reach verdict tomorrow

A jury is expected to retire to reach a verdict tomorrow on the 25th day of the trial of a Corkman accused of the rape and murder of Rachel Kiely in a park in Ballincollig in October 2000.

Yesterday, in the Central Criminal Court, barrister Mr Blaise O'Carroll SC spent his second day making a closing speech on behalf of the accused, an 18-year-old man who cannot be named for legal reasons.