Catherine Henry was killed in her apartment.
An amateur kickboxer who said he “lost all control” and stomped on his 62-year-old mother’s skull after she threatened to kill him has been found not guilty of her murder but guilty of manslaughter by a Central Criminal Court jury this evening.
The jury of seven men and five women took just three hours and 36 minutes to accept the defence of provocation put forward by Luke Donnelly (29), who told the panel of being “groomed” into a life of drugs and violence by his allegedly abusive mother.