Jury in infant murder trial must be "certain" of father's guilt, defence say

A jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard closing arguments in the trial of a man accused of murdering his infant son in Co Mayo. John Tighe, aged 40, of Lavallyroe, Ballyhaunis, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his six-and-a-half-month-old son on 1 June 2013. The prosecution alleges the child choked on tissue deliberately placed in his throat. The defence maintained the boy choked on tissue he reached…