Man found beaten to death in North

A MAN was bludgeoned to death after a fall-out at a drinking den, it emerged yesterday.

The body of Andrew Bannon, in his early 50s, was discovered at his flat in the Mullaghmore estate in Omagh, Co Tyrone in the North He had been battered over the head with a blunt object.

Another man needed hospital treatment for head, leg and arm injuries. As detectives launched a murder investigation, it emerged that the killing occurred just over a week after a woman was found dead close to the flat.