Uncle hit with tennis racquet, gardaí told

One of two brothers charged with assaulting their uncle told gardaí he hit him on the side of the head with a tennis racquet and that the other brother hit him with an ashtray during a row, a court heard.

Robert Kelly, aged 32, of Ogham Rian, Tralee, Co Kerry, and Tommy Kelly, aged 34, of Marian Park, Tralee, both deny assaulting Gerald Fitzgerald, causing him serious harm, at Mr Fitzgerald’s home, No 38, Mitchels Rd, Tralee, on November 8, 2011.

A jury at the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee was told yesterday of four interviews Tommy Kelly had with Tralee gardaí after the alleged incident and of a voluntary statement he made to gardaí in Killarney on November 18, 2011.