A retired hospital worker has gone on trial accused of strangling his wife to death after discovering that she intended to leave him for a younger man.
65-year-old John Diver from Walkinstown in Dublin is pleading not guilty to the murder of his 42-year-old wife, Geraldine, in December 1996.
On the evening of her death, two young men saw Mrs Diver on Kilnamanagh Road around 9.35pm and one of them identified Mr Diver sitting in back seat.
A lorry driver, passing through Robinhood Industrial Estate in Clondalkin shortly before 10pm, will say he saw a woman slumped in the driver's seat of a car with two large hands covering her breasts from the back seat.
An unidentifiable man is seen on CCTV getting out of Mrs Diver's car just after 10pm.
Mrs Diver's body was discovered at 10.45pm with a tie around her neck fastened to the head-rest, although the evidence will say that she was probably manually strangled.
The case continues before a jury of seven men and five women in the Central Criminal Court.
