Man found guilty of Cork murder

The jury in the murder trial going on for the past seven weeks in Cork has returned a verdict of guilty today after deliberating for three hours and 44 minutes.

John Walsh, aged 45, originally from Ballinlough, Cork, and more recently of Cork Street, Mitchelstown, had denied the charge of murdering John McManus on a date unknown between October 28 and November 7 2008 at flat 1, 3 Verdon Place, Wellington Road, Cork.