Cork strangulation 'made to look like suicide'

Two Cork men robbed then strangled a 50-year-old neighbour with a piece of electrical cable before making a "crude" attempt 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 (21) and Brian Walsh (22) murdered Nora Kiely in her flat after robbing her on July 15, 2002.