Juror's illness leads to adjournment of Noel Long trial

The case is set to resume on Monday

Noel Long is accused of murdering Nora Sheehan, whose body was found in June 1981. Picture: Collins Courts.

A juror's illness has led to the adjournment of the cold case trial of a Cork man charged with murdering a mother-of-three, whose body was found dumped in a wooded area 42 years ago.

UK forensic scientist Dr Jonathan Paul Whitaker, who developed a DNA profile from material recovered from the body of victim Mrs Nora Sheehan, had begun to give his direct evidence in the trial of Noel Long on Friday when a juror took ill.