Farmer accused of murdering aunt with tractor following land dispute

Michael Scott of Gortanumera, Portumna, Co. Galway, leaving the Central Criminal Court

A farmer has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of murdering his 76-year-old aunt by driving over her in a tractor following a long-running dispute over land.

Opening the trial for the prosecution this afternoon, Dean Kelly SC told the jury the prosecution case is that Christine 'Chrissie' Treacy was murdered in a crime of the "most terrible and dark sort" by her nephew Michael Scott.