Backpacker hostel murder trial delayed

The murder trial of the man accused of starting a fire at an Australian backpacker hostel that killed 15 young travellers, including Limerick woman Julie O'Keeffe, has been postponed to February 18.

Itinerant fruit picker Robert Paul Long is charged with murdering 27-year-old West Australian twins Kelly and Stacey Slarke and arson at the Palace Hostel in Childers, a farming community 190 miles north of Brisbane.