Ian Pickford, a former Ireland international pool player, testified in court that he was unrecognizable immediately after an alleged acid attack, leaving him with severe injuries. Pickford claims John Cross was the attacker who threw the corrosive substance at him during a house party.
A former Ireland international pool player who was left disfigured following an alleged acid attack , told a court today he was "unrecognisable" immediately afterwards due to the extent of his injuries.
Today, on the opening day of the trial at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court, Mr Pickford gave evidence of the impact of being burned by an acid substance: "I was unrecognisable at the time it happened. It was the worst I ever felt, I felt terrible and I didn’t know why it happened." "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.
Mr Pickford accepted that results of blood tests taken from him at UHL on the night in question which showed he had 198 milligrams of alcohol per deciliter of blood.
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