Father died from blunt force trauma to the head, murder trial jury told

The jury in the Central Criminal Court trial of a teenager accused of murdering his father has heard that the deceased died from blunt force trauma to the head which was complicated by a crush injury to the chest.

Thomas Cunningham (aged 19) of Santa Maria Commons, Ballinlough, Roscommon, denies murdering his father, 46 year-old Thomas Brendan Cunningham, at their home on August 23, 2007.