McIlveen accused ‘admitted kicking victim in the head’

BEATEN: Michael McIlveen, who died aged 15 on May 8 2006, the day after being beaten in an alleyway in Ballymena, Co Antrim

A drunken and angry kick left schoolboy Michael McIlveen defenceless before he was battered in the head with a baseball bat, a court heard yesterday.

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