Caretaker 'came face-to-face' with murder accused

A caretaker of a sheltered housing complex for the elderly today told how he came face-to-face with the assailant of a resident when he investigated a night-time panic alarm.

Mr Frank McCracken told a jury at the Central Criminal court that he was woken up by his bleeper on his bedside table close to 3am on 13 December 2001 and immediately went to check the house of the late Mr Joseph O’Doherty.