Keane walks free as murder trial collapses

The trial of a Limerick man accused of murder walked free from court today after the sixth prosecution witness denied making a statement identifying the accused man as the killer.

As Liam Keane (aged 19) grinned and hugged relatives as he left the Central Criminal Court with his "constitutional presumption of innocence intact", trial judge Mr Justice Carney said he has never before encountered "the likes of what happened in this trial".