'We just beat him to death. We just kept beating him," Cork court hears in garda testimony

A Cork man co-accused of beating a man into a coma who died nine months later admitted to gardaí that he and his friend "just beat him to death", a court heard today.

Mr Paul Sheehan (aged 21), The Glen, Cork and Mr Ross Stapleton (aged 21) also of The Glen, have pleaded not guilty to the murder of Mr Christian Scully (aged 28) Togher, Cork on October 17, 2002.