The jury has been told it can return a majority verdict in the cold case murder trial of Vera McGrath.
The mother-of-4 denies killing her husband Brian McGrath at the family home in Lower Coole in Westmeath in 1987.
Mr. Justice John Edwards has informed the jury that he will now accept a majority verdict of 10-to-1 in favour of either acquitting or convicting Vera McGrath.
At that point the 11 jurors had been deliberating for around 6 hours
In this trial the prosecution alleges that 23 years ago the mother-of-4 took part in a sustained and fatal attack on her husband Brian McGrath involving a spanner, a lump hammer and slash hook.
On Friday the jury cleared Vera McGrath’s co-accused and former son-in-law Colin Pinder of murder.
Instead they found him guilty of manslaughter which he had admitted at the outset of the trial.
His defence was that he had been provoked by a racist remark.
