Man pleads not guilty to Sligo murder by reason of insanity

A 32-year-old man has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of a 20-year-old in Sligo in February 2018. The Central Criminal Court heard that the accused admitted carrying out the fatal attack with a crowbar at a residential address on Connolly Street. The defence conceded that the deceased was entirely innocent and that the accused held delusional beliefs about the victim with no basis in reality…