Murder trial hears from victim's lover

The trial of man accused of killing his wife 10 years ago has heard from the man with whom she was having an affair that they were planning to move in with each other and have a child.

On the eighth day of the trial of John Diver, Kilnamanagh Road, Walkinstown, Dublin, who denies murdering his wife, Geraldine, at Robinhood Road, Clondalkin, on December 2, 1996, Raymond Roche said that he and Mrs Diver got on very well with each other, and within a short period of time started making plans for a future together.