State Pathologist gives evidence in Cork murder trial

A mother-of-three found dead in her Cork home on Easter Sunday last year may have been bludgeoned to death with a hurley and the door of a microwave oven after being knocked to the ground, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

State Pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy has given evidence in the trial of a Co Meath man charged with the murder of separated mother Catherine Smart (aged 57) at her home in Bailick Court, Midleton, on April 4, 2010.