Trial of woman for murder of teenage mother draws to close

The closing stages have been reached at the Central Criminal Court in the trial of Kelly Noble, a young woman accused of murdering a teenage mother of two outside a supermarket in Co Meath last year.

Kelly Noble (aged 21), herself a mother of two, denies the murder of 19-year-old Emma McLoughlin, who was stabbed in the chest in Laytown, Co Meath on June 2 last year. The 21-year-old woman, from Seaview in Laytown, also denies a second charge of unlawfully producing a knife in the course of a dispute or a fight, in a manner likely to intimidate or inflict serious injury.