Court hears murder accused told teenagers he had killed a widow pensioner

53-year-old John Joseph Malone of Newpark in Kilkenny City denies strangling Anne ‘Nancy’ Smyth before setting her home on fire.

Court hears murder accused told teenagers he had killed a widow pensioner

The Central Criminal Court has heard that a murder accused told two teenage boys that he killed a widow pensioner in Kilkenny in 1987.

53-year-old John Joseph Malone of Newpark in Kilkenny City denies strangling Anne ‘Nancy’ Smyth before setting her home on fire.

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