Man’s brain cut out and body disected, court told

THE partly-burnt body of a man shot twice in the head had many other gruesome injuries, a coroner’s court heard yesterday.

His torso was bisected, several limbs had been crushed and severed and his brain had been “cut out”.

Reported as a missing person, the body of 34-year-old Waterford man Martin Nolan was discovered on a makeshift pyre in woodland near Clonmel.