Ian Pickford, a former Ireland international pool player disfigured in an alleged 2020 acid attack, testified in court that his attacker was John Cross. Pickford described the extent of his injuries and his struggle to regain his identity.
Limerick man Ian Pickford suffered horrendous life-changing injuries following the incident in Garryowen in June 2020.
Mr Pickford, a former Limerick intermediate pool champion who was also capped for Ireland at junior level, identified Mr Cross in court as the person who flung the “corrosive substance” at him. The witness said that following the attack he went to his parents’ home, located nearby, and his father rushed him to University Hospital Limerick where he said the doctors and nurses “saved me”.
“I had multiple skin grafts put on my face which were taken from my left thigh, and put across my forehead, my cheek and my two eyelids,” Mr Pickford explained.“I had terrible pain after the procedures across my face, one of the skin grafts never took and I got a blood clot so they ) had to redo it,” he said.
Under cross examination, Mr Pickford agreed with Mr Cross’s barrister, senior counsel Brian McInerney, that he had consumed at least eight cans of cider on the night prior to the alleged attack, but he disagreed with Mr McInerney that he was probably “drunk”.Mr Pickford agreed with Mr McInerney that he had told gardaí that a “tall man with a husky voice” who he did not know had said to him immediately after the alleged incident, “that’s what you get for being a rat”.
ALLEGED ACID ATTACK DISFIGUREMENT COURT TRIAL SPORTS PERSONALITY INJURIES
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