Ross Outram (28) has pleaded not guilty to murdering Paddy Lyons in Lismore in 2017
told the trial she saw Mr Lyons’ blood-smeared body in his armchair at his home and found his cause of death to be blunt force trauma to his body along with a traumatic brain injury and shock due to fractures of his hip joint, jawbone and ribs.
Defence counsel, Michael O’Higgins SC, argued in his closing speech that Mr Outram had acted in self defence and that he could not be made liable for “a fall” which saw Mr Lyons break his hip if it was unconnected to the original injuries inflicted on him by the accused. Counsel told the jury that it “flew in the face of all common sense” to suggest that Mr Lyons’ hip injury could have occurred after he was subjected to the attack or could be seen as something entirely independent.
However, if the jury accepted that it was reasonably possible that Mr Lyons did not fall or sustain his hip injury during the altercation and the fall occurred after Mr Outram left the house, then causation had not been made out and they must acquit him of murder.
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