A 22-year-old man is to stand trial charged with the murder of his mother in south Belfast, a judge ordered today.
Jordan Kennedy appeared at the city s Magistrates Court over allegations that he stabbed Emma Jane McParland to death.
Ms McParland s body was found at her flat off the Ormeau Road on April 22 this year.
Kennedy, of Haywood Avenue in Belfast, faces a single count of murdering his 39-year-old mother.
A previous court heard he suffered brain damage following a fatal road crash in 2014.
Kennedy s friend was killed in the two-car collision, while a woman travelling in the second vehicle was seriously injured.