Barry Whelan (46) was found laying on his back in downtown Boston on St Patrick’s Day 2023
The fate of a man charged with fatally striking a Dublin carpenter on St Patrick’s Day, 2023 rests in the hands of a Boston jury.
The two men were strangers who interacted on the street shortly before 9pm and had a seven-minute exchange before Mr Sadiq struck Mr Whelan, who fell and hit his head.Early stages of investigation finds actor Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa had been dead for some timeMr Sadiq’s attorney Michael Chinman argued that in the moments before the assault Mr Whelan was harassing Mr Sadiq, calling him a “f***ing” n-word and that Mr Whelan fell because he was drunk.
Mr Sadiq was on his way to his job as a bouncer at nearby bar Yvonne’s when Mr Whelan approached, said the defence. Mr Whelan called him “lazy” looked angry, used a hand gesture and told Mr Sadiq to move out of the way. Mr Whelan then returned and approached Mr Sadiq near an ATM machine, calling called Mr Sadiq a racial epithet.When his client struck Mr Whelan, he wasn’t trying to cause injury, said Mr Chinman.
“Watch this video as many times as you like,” she told the jury. Is it a “consistent course of action” for someone in fear to walk closer to the person they see as a threat, asked Ms Bannister.
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