A teenager accused of murdering a 14-year-old Co Laois schoolboy told a friend that he wanted to kill someone that no one would care about, the Central Criminal Court heard today.
A classmate of the accused, who cannot be named because he is underage, told the court that at 7.15pm on November 11th, he was out with two of his friends when they were joined by the accused.
The 16-year-old accused denies murdering the school boy. The deceased, who also cannot be named for legal reasons, was found on waste ground on the night of November 11th, 2003.
The student alleges that the accused said "I would love to kill someone, someone that no one would care about, like" the deceased.
Another classmate of the accused claimed in court that the 16-year-old accused said, "he wondered what it's like to kill someone" and that he would "like to try it out on the deceased first", the school friend said.
A close friend of the accused claimed the accused had confessed to the alleged murder.
After he rang him late on the night the Laois teenager lost his life, the friend claims the accused told him he was "after killing someone and leaving him down the banks".
Earlier the State Pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy said the deceased who was allegedly hammered to death by a school friend died from "blunt force trauma to his head".
Dr Cassidy said the deceased suffered "six separate blows to his head", five of which were "inflicted in rapid succession" while he was lying on the ground.
"The young man was upright when the first blow was struck on the right side of his head. This blow could have caused him to collapse to the ground and lose consciousness", Dr Cassidy said.
Dr Cassidy said the victim would have died around 6.30pm on 11 November 2003. The father of the accused told the Central Criminal Court that his son had been living with him for 6-months.
The father told the jury that he had only become part of his son's life in 2003. Before that, the accused had been living with his mother in his grandparents house. His 16-year-old son, he said, had attempted suicide in September 2003 and that he "was very worried about him".
A teacher of the accused also told the jury of five men and seven women that on 11 November last, he was teaching metal work to the accused in the last class of the day.
After the deceased died, the teacher said Gardai came to the school to enquire about what hammers were used in school. The teacher discovered that "two hammers were missing".