Jury sees video taped admission in axe trial

A jury at a three-day murder trial of a Cork man accused of murder, today saw the accused's video taped admission to the hacking to death of the victim with an axe.

Mr Mark Allingham, (aged 23) of Fr Murphy Place, Midleton, Co Cork admitted to gardaí during a videotaped interview on October 21, 2002 to killing Mr Gerard Hackett, (aged 49) with an axe seven times in the head at a derelict house known as The Rock, Towns Park, Midleton, Co. Cork.