‘All she did was try to help’ – siblings testify that brother accused of killing their mother was abusive to her and once broke her jaw

The accused’s sister, Sharon, said her mother called her and told her Billy was “psychotic” before she was found deadHis younger bother Shane said he lived in fear of Billy and often saw his mother with bruises

Miriam and Billy Burns

A man told gardaí, “I didn’t kill the b***h”, when they put an allegation to him that he had killed his 75-year-old mother, a Central Criminal Court jury heard this afternoon.

The jury also heard that the accused man, Billy Burns (55), broke his mother Miriam Burns’s jaw in 1993 and often verbally abused her over the years.