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GARDAI have been accused of using the girlfriend of the man suspected of murdering Shane Geoghegan as bait to force him into a confession. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE man charged with murdering Shane Geoghegan admitted shooting him in the back of the head in a case of mistaken identity, a court heard yesterday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE mother of a man shot dead in a case of mistaken identity yesterday said she was still haunted by the image of his body lying outside her front door. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A MOTHER wept yesterday as she revealed how she woke to hear her son being killed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A MAN who took part in the vicious slaying of his fiancée's father and disposed of his body in the most gruesome fashion 23 years ago was jailed yesterday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE jail terms handed down to four men involved in the death of Wexford mother Rebecca French were 'not half long enough', the sentencing judge admitted yesterday. Mr Justice Barry White said that although it was likely one or more of the men had killed the 30-year-old, they enjoyed a presumption of innocence and no one would ever face justice over the killings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A SON has been jailed for beating his father to death with a spade in a killing he described as 'payback time'. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE older of two brothers accused of murdering a farmer in a dispute over a heifer has walked free from court. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOTHER of two Rebecca French suffered an agonising death, stomped on and beaten with a golf club before before being burned in the boot of her car. Just hours after the grisly murder gardaí had arrested a number of people. A house raid uncovered crucial evidence including blood-stained clothes and golf clubs. However, yesterday detectives were forced to accept that no one will be prosecuted for the crime. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOTHER-OF-TWO Rebecca French may have been alive when she was put into the boot of her car before it was set on fire, a jury heard yesterday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

COLIN Pinder has been found guilty of killing his fiancée's father in 1987. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A MAN accused of murdering his exwife's father told gardaí he only wanted to give the victim 'a good hiding' after seeing the man beat his children, a court has heard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A JURY heard yesterday how murder accused Colin Pinder killed his fiancée's father 23 years ago and burnt his body after burying it in a shallow grave. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A WOMAN has denied that she helped beat her father to death after he called her ex-husband a 'n*****'. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A WOMAN who claims she saw her mother beat her father to death wept yesterday as she was accused of making up the allegation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A WOMAN saw her mother and future husband beat to death her father 23 years ago and bury him in their back garden, a court has heard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

HE was acquitted of the murder of two Polish mechanics. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AS their children's killer was sentenced to life yesterday, two sets of parents told a court how their lives had been shattered by t h e murders. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

HE had committed a terrible crime. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TWO men accused of murdering a pair of Polish mechanics deliberately killed their victims, a Central Criminal Court jury was told yesterday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A TEENAGER who has admitted killing two Polish men, earlier told gardaí that he saw his co-accused stabbing them, a jury has learned. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

RACIST comments were shouted at two Polish mechanics before they were stabbed to death with a screwdriver, a murder trial has heard. Pawel Kalite, 28, and Marius Szwajkos, 27, died after being stabbed in the head near their home on Belbulben Road, in Drimnagh, Dublin. Yesterday, the Central Criminal Court heard from Polish siblings Kamila and Radek Szeremeta, who shared a house with the victims and witnessed the killings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A TEENAGER who stabbed two Polish men in the head had spent the day taking drugs and drinking alcohol, a court was told yesterday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A PRIMARY school pupil saw a man accused of murder stab two Polish men with a screwdriver, a court heard yesterday. The girl said David Curran fought with them, and she saw him stab one of them in the side of the head. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FOUR witnesses told a murder trial yesterday that they saw or heard two Polish friends being killed outside their home. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A PRISONER at Mountjoy Jail was stabbed to death after being let out of his cell for a recreation break, a murder trial heard yesterday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BURGLAR Oliver Hayes was convicted yesterday of the brutal murder of 60-yearold widow Anne Corcoran after abducting her from her farmhouse during a botched robbery. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A MOTHER of one was murdered by her butcher boyfriend after she fled the home they shared. Amilton Leonel De Olivera, 37, has been jailed for life for using his nine-inch boning knife to stab Kezia Gomes Rosa in the heart. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TWO brothers have been jailed for 14 years each for killing a man they found in bed with the younger brother's ex-girlfriend. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A TEENAGER who punched and kicked his drunken father to death walked free from court yesterday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE LIVES of two families have been ruined after a garda's teenage son killed a boy of 14, a senior judge said yesterday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A MAN has been found guilty of murdering a friend as he slept after claiming the man had 'grassed him up'. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]