Jury advised in mum-of-two murder case

Mr Justice Michael Peart has told the jury in the trial of a teenager charged with murder that it must draw no inference from the fact that the accused has given no evidence. The accused, he said, needs to prove nothing.

The jury must decide if Mark Costigan (aged 18), of Aylsbury in Kilkenny is guilty of the murder of a 36-year-old mother-of-two at her home in the city two years ago. He has denied stabbing Christine Quinn to death at the house on Greenfields Road on December 5, 2002.