The jury in the trial of Riad Bouchaker (52), who denies attempting to murder three children, were also on Friday shown a bloodstained jacket belonging to a childcare worker whom it is alleged the accused man seriously harmed.

She told the trial of Riad Bouchaker (52), who denies attempting to murder her child and two others, that her daughter is now in a wheelchair and communicates only by blinking.

At the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday, a senior counsel acting for Riad Bouchaker said that he received the report yesterday and will make it available to the Director of Public Prosecutions in due course.

The trial of Riad Bouchaker (50) , of no fixed abode, had been provisionally listed for January 13th but that date has been vacated following an application by his lawyers