Man guilty of killing woman at home they shared

A MAN has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of a mother-of-three who was beaten to death in her Cork home last year.

Derek Daly, aged 47, originally from Enfield, Co Meath, but with an address at St Vincent’s Hostel, Cork, had denied the murder of Catherine Smart, aged 57, at the home they shared at Ballick Court, Midleton, Co Cork, on Easter Sunday morning, April 4, 2010.

Ms Smart was subjected to a violent assault and died from multiple blunt force injuries to the head.