Killing of pensioner brothers with special needs was 'overkill', court told

A Mayo man said he poured boiling water over a disabled pensioner’s genitals and beat the victim’s elderly brother in his bed because he thought that, as they were living together, 'maybe’ they were child molesters.

Alan Cawley’s murder trial also heard details of the extensive injuries suffered by the elderly brothers in what the State Pathologist described as ‘overkill’.