Court reports mentioning John Joseph Malone

2017-04-06

81-year-old tells trial that cold case accused confessed to killing in 1980s

Stage: Trial

Plea: Not guilty

2017-04-04

Witness tells trial she reported murder accused's confession 20 years ago

Stage: Trial

Plea: Not guilty

2017-04-03

Cold case murder accused confessed to former sister-in-law, trial hears

Stage: Trial

Plea: Not guilty

2017-03-30

Brother tells cold case murder trial that accused stabbed him hours after confessing killing

Stage: Sentence

Plea: Not guilty

Outcome: He also agreed that he had served two sentences for separate rapes in Kilkenny.

2017-03-29

Evangelist tells cold case murder trial that loyalty to accused superseded reporting of confession

Stage: Trial

Plea: Not guilty

2017-03-28

Cold case murder accused told fellow Church member that he killed widow and set fire to her house, trial hears

Stage: Sentence

Plea: Not guilty

Outcome: He said he told him that King David and Moses had murdered people and were in Heaven, but that they had been sorry. "He said: 'Well what if this person isn't sorry for what they've done?'" said Mr Curran. "Then I just said they'd be wasting their time." He said that the accused came to see him again a few months later. "He just said to me that he couldn't make out how forensics says that Mrs Smyth was strangled," he said. "He had told me that he had argued with her and that he pushed her and she fell," he continued, adding that Mr Malone had told him she had banged her head off a stone. "That

2017-03-27

Murder accused banging on door of widow's home, witness tells cold case trial

Stage: Trial

Plea: Not guilty

2017-03-24

Widow strangled before fire was set in her home, trial hears

Stage: Trial

Plea: Not guilty

2017-03-23

Witness describes strangled widow as "lovely person"

Stage: Trial

Plea: Not guilty