Two accused of strangling woman in bedsit

Two Cork men robbed then strangled their 50-year-old neighbour with a piece of cable and tried to make it look like suicide, a court heard today.

Prosecution counsel Mr Alex Owens SC told a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal Court that Thomas Penkert, aged 21, and Brian Walsh, aged 22, murdered Nora Kiely after robbing her of €20 in Cork on July 15, 2002.