Father of two sentenced to life in prison for bludgeoning flatmate to death

A 57-year-old father of two has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his flatmate by bludgeoning him to death with the leg of a coffee table in their Limerick home.

The Central Criminal Court trial heard that the 39-year-old victim had suffered a multiplicity of blows to his face; his broken skull was visible when his body was found.