Judge urges jury to consider alleged confession carefully

The judge in the trial of a drug addict accused of murdering Dubliner Rebecca Hoban has told the jury to think “long and hard” about his alleged confession to her murder.

In his charge to the jury at the Central Criminal Court yesterday, Mr Justice George Birmingham reminded them of Dean Lyons, a homeless heroin addict who falsely confessed to the 1998 Grangegorman murders.