Jury in incest trial discharged

THE incest trial of a Monaghan farmer ended at the Central Criminal Court yesterday with the discharge of the jury.

THE incest trial of a Monaghan farmer ended at the Central Criminal Court yesterday with the discharge of the jury.

Mr Justice Geoghegan said that even leaving aside the obvious distress of the accused man's 13 year old daughter, there were considerable evidential problems which made it unsafe to allow the trial to proceed.

He remanded the accused man on continuing bail to December 12th next.