A 42-year-old man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court in Cork charged with the murder of his wife at their home in the southside of the city in the summer of 2023.
Regin Parithapara Rajan was previously charged with the murder of his wife, Deepa Paruthiyezhuth Dinamani, at Cardinal Court in Wilton, Cork on July 14th, 2023.
Mr Rajan, who was wearing a navy suit, pleaded not guilty to the murder of Ms Dinamani when he was arraigned on Monday morning.
Ms Dinamani was a 38-year-old chartered accountant from Kerala in southern India. She had moved to Ireland in the months before her death and was the mother of a young son.
Mr Rajan is also from India. Deepa Dinamani worked in accounting/finance at Alter Domus in the Airport Business Park in Cork.
Prosecution counsel Sean Gillane SC said the trial was expected to last up to three weeks and will involve a “significant number of witnesses.”
The trial is being presided over by Ms Justice Siobhan Lankford. The jury is comprised of seven women and five men.
They will be given an outline of the case on Monday afternoon by the prosecution counsel.
Ms Dinamani was pronounced dead at her family home on the evening of July 14th, 2023. Her body was transferred to Cork University Hospital where a postmortem examination was carried out by State pathologist Dr Linda Mulligan.
An iDonate page raised funds to pay for her repatriation to India for burial. A candlelight vigil was held in her memory outside her home two days after her body was found. Ms Dinamani is survived by her seven-year-old son, her parents and a brother.
