A man who stabbed his mother to death at her Mayo home in 2011 while he was high on drugs had walked out of a Castlebar courtroom three weeks earlier, despite an order to keep him in custody.

A man has told a Mayo murder trial that he was having his morning tea, when a half-naked teenager approached his kitchen window and told him he had been abducted by aliens.

A 22-year-old Mayo man has gone on trial, charged with murdering his mother at their home almost three years ago.

A post mortem examination on the body of a woman found in Co Mayo yesterday has revealed that she was stabbed to death.

The body of a 46-year-old woman was found in the early hours of this morning at a house in Mayo, gardaí said.