Jury sent home again in pensioner's murder trial

The jury has been sent home for a second night while deliberating in the trial of a homeless man accused of murdering a pensioner in his home.

Stephen Byrne (aged 36) has pleaded not guilty to murdering 69-year-old William Traynor in his house on St Francis Terrace, Bow Street on June 17, 2007.

Firefighters found the elderly man semi-conscious that evening, after being called to a small fire at his home.

He died two days later in Beaumont Hospital, where a neurosurgeon put his injuries at 10 on a scale of one to 10

Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy told the jury of seven women and five men to reach a unanimous verdict of either guilty of murder, guilty of manslaughter or not guilty.