Teen hit father and left him sleeping outside, jury in murder trial told

A Roscommon teenager told gardaí that he hit his father who arrived home drunk and left him asleep outside before finding him dead the next morning, a jury has heard.

Thomas Cunningham (aged 19) of Santa Maria Commons, Ballinlough, denies murdering Thomas Brendan Cunningham (aged 46) at that address on August 23, 2007.