'Immense amount of blood' at murder scene, court told

A 49-year-old Romanian man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend in South Dublin last year.

Mihalachie Marian, with an address in Romania, has pleaded not guilty to murdering 35-year-old nurse Loradena Pricajan on January 28, 2010 at the Irish Management Institute (IMI) in Sandyford.