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Man jailed after killing his disabled father

A  man who beat his disabled father to death after apparently mistaking him for an intruder has been jailed for his murder.

Peter McGarry binged on cocaine and alcohol before fatally attacking his 76-year-old dad Malcolm McGarry at his home in Northfield Close, Sutton-in-Ashfield.

Police officers found Mr McGarry unconscious in the living room with severe head and facial injuries after being called to the address in the early hours of 1 December last year.

Attending officers and paramedics administered CPR but he was pronounced dead at 2.05am.

His son, 53-year-old Peter McGarry, was detained at the scene. When told by officers he was being arrested on suspicion of murdering his father, he replied: “My dad? Are you kidding?”

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At a sentencing hearing today (2 August), Nottingham Crown Court heard McGarry was under the influence of cocaine and alcohol and that he told officers he believed he had attacked a drug-dealing intruder, not his father.

James Horne KC, mitigating, said his client expressed “disbelief” following the killing, adding he’d had a “loving and close relationship” with his father and that they’d been watching football together in the hours leading up to the “unthinkable” incident.

Mr Horne added: “He has a deep and profound regret over what happened. The sense of loss he feels in that regard is compounded by the fact he is responsible for it.”

A post-mortem examination found Mr McGarry – who was partially paralysed having suffered a stroke in 2013 – sustained a severe and traumatic brain injury along with multiple facial injuries, having been repeatedly kicked and punched by his son.

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