Legal argument in the absence of the jury continued at the Central Criminal Court yesterday in the trial of a publican accused of the murders of his wife and toddler in a fire.
It was the 14th day of the trial of Mr Francis McCann (36) who has denied the murders of his wife, Esther (36), and 18 month old baby, Jessica, at the family home at Butterfield Avenue, Rathfarnham, Dublin on September 4th, 1992.