French man 'shot through window as he slept'

Lawyers for the State have told a jury that two men on trial for murdering a French man in Bray went to the apartment he shared with his girlfriend and shot him through the window as they slept in bed.

Opening the murder trial of Declan Sheridan and James O'Connor this morning, senior prosecuting counsel, Ms Una Ni Raifeartaigh SC, told the jury the motive for the killing is not "terribly apparent on the evidence" but it would be the prosecution's case that the two men were guilty of the murder of Charles Sinapayen.