A teenager is to be sentenced today for killing the pensioner he claimed sexually abused him when he was younger.

A Cavan pensioner found unconscious in his home after an assault was hospitalised with bleeding to his rectum, a scrotal tear and significant bruising to his penis, a murder trial has heard.

A Leitrim teenager charged with murdering a 73-year-old man told investigating Gardaí the pensioner had sexually abused him when he was younger, a court heard today.

A 19-year-old Leitrim man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court, charged with murdering a 73-year-old man, whom he claimed had been ‘inappropriate with him’ in his youth.