Ross Outram found guilty of murder of 90-year-old farmer Paddy Lyons in Lismore, Co Waterford
A jury has convicted a man of murdering a 90-year-old retired farmer who was found beaten to death in his own home.
Pathologist Dr Margaret Bolster told the trial that Mr Lyons suffered multiple blows to his head and neck from a blunt weapon and had fractures of his hip joint, jawbone and ribs. The three-week trial heard medical evidence that Mr Lyons suffered a “stiffness or fusion” of his right shoulder during childbirth and could only keep it in one position.
However, prosecution counsel John O'Kelly SC told the jury in his closing speech that it “flew in the face of all common sense” to suggest that Mr Lyons’ hip injury could have occurred after he was subjected to the attack or could be seen as something entirely independent.
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