A jury has convicted a man of the 2017 murder of a 90-year-old retired farmer in County Waterford.

Ross Outram, of Ferryland, Waterford Road, Clonmel had pleaded not guilty to murdering Paddy Lyons in Ballysaggart, Co Waterford, at a time unknown between February 23 and 26, 2017.

The panel of eight men and four women rejected Outram’s claim that he repeatedly struck Paddy Lyons in “self defence”, after three-and-a-half hours of deliberation.

The pensioner suffered from osteoporosis and only had the use of one arm.

The prosecution described what happened to Mr. Lyons as “a vicious and sustained attack on a defenceless old man”.

A victim impact statement was read to the court from Mr Lyons’ former Home Help.