Jury sent to hotel in cut-throat trial

A jury was sent to a hotel tonight in the trial of a Dublin man who admits a cut-throat killing but denies that it was murder.

In the Central Criminal Court, John Cleary, aged 24, of St Mark's Avenue, Clondalkin, Dublin admitted beating and then fatally stabbing Kenneth Foley, aged 45, at Jamestown Court in Inchicore but he pleaded not guilty to murder.