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A 75-year-old pen­sion­er was found dead in his kitchen on Thurs­day night, and po­lice have since ar­rest­ed his men­tal­ly ill son in con­nec­tion with the in­ci­dent.

The body of Pe­ter Ban­field was dis­cov­ered around 8 p.m. at his home at LP #14 Mamoral Road, Flana­gin Town, by a rel­a­tive who had been alert­ed by Ban­field’s sis­ter. The woman told po­lice she re­ceived a call from her moth­er, who said Ban­field’s son, Christo­pher, had shown up at her house be­hav­ing sus­pi­cious­ly.

Con­cerned af­ter re­peat­ed at­tempts to con­tact Ban­field failed, the woman went to his home. She told po­lice she called out to him sev­er­al times be­fore open­ing the door and dis­cov­er­ing his body ly­ing mo­tion­less in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor.