Jury retire to hotel in Mulder case
The jury in the trial of a South African man charged with murdering his Irish-born wife have been sent to a hotel for the night at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin.
The jury of ten men and two women had been deliberating for two hours.
Anton Mulder (aged 45), with an address at Maelduin, Dunshaughlin, Co Meath but originally from Durban in South Africa, denies murdering Colleen Suzanne Mulder at the house they were renting on the morning of December 17, 2004.
Mrs Mulder was found dead in an upstairs bedroom of the house, in her pyjamas. She had been manually strangled.
The jury will continue their deliberations tomorrow morning.
