A 28 year-old ‘new age’ traveller told gardaí he agreed to allow his girlfriend’s former partner join them on a campsite because he was scared of him.

A New Age traveller denied that he and two other men intended to teach a Portuguese man a lesson when they beat him with an iron bar and left him to die in a field near their caravan site last year.

A garda told a murder trial jury today that he found a "long bar" in grass during a search of a field following the discovery of the body of Portuguese man nearby.

One of three New Age Travellers accused of the murder of a Portuguese national told gardaí he intended to force the deceased off a campsite but did not realise the extent of his injuries when he dragged him to a field where he later died.

Three new age travellers had a "tacit agreement" to remove a Portuguese man from a caravan site when they allegedly beat him to death, a prosecution lawyer told a murder trial jury today.

Three British men are due to go on trial tomorrow charged with the murder of a Portuguese man whose badly beaten body was discovered near a popular scenic beach last year.

A THIRD man appeared in court yesterday on a charge relating to the death of 45-year-old Portuguese national Sergio Abreu, whose battered body was found in a field at Whiting Bay near Ardmore, Co Waterford last Saturday.

A third man has appeared in court in Co Waterford charged with the murder of a Portuguese National whose body was found in a field in the west of the county last weekend.

TWO Scottish men were last night charged in connection with the killing of a 45 -year-old Portuguese man, Sergio Abreu, at a special sitting of Youghal District Court.