Man was shot in head sleeping next to girlfriend, court hears

A man was shot twice in the head as he lay sleeping beside his girlfriend, the prosecution claimed this morning at the trial of a Cavan man accused of murder.

Trevor McCabe (aged 34), Mountpleasant, Ballyconnell, Co Cavan has pleaded not guilty to murdering Darren McGrath in Belturbet, Co Cavan on May 20 last year.