Assault and robbery of one of the accused prompted Kieran Quilligan murder, court told

The Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork heard that: 'The case is for the most part circumstantial'

27-year-old Luke Taylor

A murder trial jury in Cork was told by the prosecution on Wednesday that the instigation for the killing was the deceased man’s involvement in an assault and robbery of one of the two men now accused of murdering him.

They were also told that he probably met a violent death that same day even though his skeletal remains were not found for almost five months in a garda search of wet ground in a rural area of East Cork with the help of a cadaver dog.