Nothing prepares you for being told your father has been beaten to death: Son of victim

The son of a 62-year-old man beaten to death by a man half his age has said he cannot stop thinking of him drowning in his own blood with nobody to help him, writes Natasha Reid.

David Sweeney was delivering his victim impact statement to the Central Criminal Court today in the sentence hearing of the 35-year-old Dubliner, who pleaded guilty to his father’s manslaughter.