Child witnessed murder, court hears

The young son of a Jamaican woman allegedly beaten to death with a lump hammer saw his mother being killed, a witness has told a murder trial jury.

Nicola Curtis, the sister of the deceased, was giving evidence at the Central Criminal Court in the trial of Goodwill Udechukwu (aged 32) with a previous address at Royal Canal View, Royal Canal Bank, Phibsboro who denies the murder of his wife Natasha Gray (aged 25) at the same address on February 18, 2003.