Phone call leads gardaí to body

GARDAÍ believe the 49-year-old man found in the basement of a building in Co Cork was beaten and slashed to death in a frenzied attack.

The body of the victim, understood to be Jerry Hackett, a homeless man originally from Cork city, was discovered in the disused two-storey building in Midleton, Co Cork, on Sunday night.

His body may have been there for up to 48 hours. The gruesome discovery was made following an anonymous phone call to gardaí.