Youth pleads guilty to Martin O'Gorman killing

A young Meath man has admitted killing 63-year-old Athlone man Martin O'Gorman who died from head injuries last year. Jonathan Smith (19), Windtown Crescent, Navan, pleaded guilty at Trim Circuit Court yesterday (Tuesday) to the unlawful killing of Martin O'Gorman at Academy Street, Navan, on June 21, 2010. Mr O'Gorman had been found lying on the roadway at Academy Street by a taxi man in the early hours of Monday June 21 last year but died later from his injuries at the Beaumont Hospital in Dublin. The victim was an avid football fan had been socialising in Navan following Meath's victory over Laois in Tullamore in last year's Leinster Championship. Judge Michael O'Shea remanded Smith in custody in Cloverhill Prison to appear in court again on January 31 next and directed that a Probation and Welfare Report and a Governor's Report be prepared on the accused in the meantime.