Man pleads not guilty to murdering Galway teen

A 24 year-old Dublin man who alerted gardai to a "grizzly scene" where his homeless teenage girlfriend had been “viciously strangled” was later arrested and charged with her murder, a jury at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

Phillip Reddin, originally from Donamore Park, Tallaght, Dublin, now of no fixed abode, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of 17 year-old Niamh Murphy, who was originally from Galway, at a house in Pembroke Road, Ballsbridge on May 10, 2002.