Murder trial jury still to reach verdict

The jury in the trial of a man who denies murdering one of his best friends and says he was acting in self-defence at the time of the alleged attack, has been sent home for the night after failing to reach a verdict.

Following just over two hours of deliberations at the Central Criminal Court, the jury of six men and six women failed to come to an unanimous agreement in the trial of Martin Toland, an unemployed Dublin man with an address at Walkinstown Park.