Wife considered committing accused, court hears

The wife of a man accused of murdering their 20-month-old son considered committing him to a mental hospital in the months before the killing, a jury has heard.

In the Central Criminal Court trial, Yusif Ali Yusif Ali Abdi (aged 30), originally from Somalia, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of the murder of his son, Nathan Baraka Andrew Ali on April 17, 2001 in an apartment at The Elms, College Road, Clane, Co. Kildare.