Man stabbed his mother ten times, jury told

A man stabbed his mother 10 times with a kitchen knife and then kicked her and beat her with a brush handle until it broke as she lay on the ground, the Central Criminal Court sitting in Castlebar heard yesterday.

The reason Paul Henry attacked his late mother, Ann Henry, at 3 The Spinney, Abbeytown, Roscommon Town, on September 17, 2011, was because he did not like her suggestion as to where he should live, Mr Justice Paul Carney and the jury was told.

Mr Henry, aged 25, denies a charge of murdering his mother, aged 47, who “stumbled” from her home after being stabbed in her kitchen.