Badri Khvedelidze pleads not guilty to murder as witness fails to identify him

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Badri Khvedelidze has pleaded not guilty to murder at the Central Criminal Court. The proceedings were reported on 23 October 2015. The court heard that a witness had failed to identify him when shown his photograph. The murder is alleged to have occurred at an asylum-seeker hostel in Tralee, Co Kerry, in October 2005.

The witness identified three other men from eight photographs but did not identify Mr Khvedelidze as having been at the scene. The trial continued before a jury and Judge Isobel Kennedy, with the next hearing scheduled for 27 October 2015.