Cocaine taken on night of murder, jury told

Cocaine and champagne were consumed by New Years Eve revellers the night a man was murdered at Jurys Inn Hotel, Croke Park, a court has heard.

Karl Breen, 27, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his friend Martin McLaughlin but he has admitted stabbing him three times during a row at the hotel in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2006.