Jury instructed in case of woman accused of murdering husband

The jury in the trial of a woman accused of murdering her husband with a hammer has been instructed that the only verdicts open to them are guilty of murder, or guilty of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.

The eight men and four women of the jury have begun their deliberations in the case of Anne Burke (aged 56), of Ballybrittas, Co Laois, who denies murdering her husband Pat Burke (aged 55), at the family home in August 2007.