Whether intoxication can ever be a defence to murder will be part of appeal by man who killed mother

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a further appeal by a young man over his conviction for the murder of his mother in a frenzied knife attack.

Whether intoxication can ever be a defence to murder will be part of appeal by man who killed mother

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a further appeal by a young man over his conviction for the murder of his mother in a frenzied knife attack.

The court, in a recently published determination, said Celyn Eadon's case raises legal issues of general public importance concerning whether intoxication can ever be a defence to murder.

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