Man found guilty of murdering a 69-year-old widow in Kilkenny

A 'cold case' investigation has solved a 30-year-old murder after a jury returned a guilty verdict against a man for strangling an elderly woman to death before setting her house on fire.

John Joseph Malone (53), of Newpark, Kilkenny City was found guilty today of the murder of 69-year-old Ann 'Nancy' Smyth on September 11, 1987 at her home on Wolfe Tone Street, Kilkenny.