John Joseph Malone on trial for Kilkenny murder

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John Joseph Malone is on trial for the murder of Ann (Nancy) Smyth at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin on 22 March 2017.

He has pleaded not guilty to murdering 69-year-old Ann (Nancy) Smyth on 11 September 1987 at her home on Wolfe Tone Street, Kilkenny City. The proceedings were reported on 22 March 2017.

The prosecution alleged that a member of a Bible study group strangled Smyth and set fire to her house. The trial continued before Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy and a jury, and was expected to last more than three weeks.