Ross Outram (28) claims he ‘fought back’ when victim hit him with stick and shovel
at Loughleagh, Ballysaggart, Lismore, Co Waterford, at a time unknown between February 23rd and 26th, 2017.
The jury has heard medical evidence that Mr Lyons suffered a “stiffness or fusion” of his right shoulder during childbirth and could only keep it in one position.Mr Outram told gardaí in interviews that he had “fought back” after Mr Lyons hit him with a walking stick and shovel, and that he had taken up to 100 Xanax that day. A pharmaceutical expert has told the jury that there is “no proof” that Mr Outram had taken Xanax.
A defence pathologist said he “favoured” the possibility that Mr Lyons’ hip fracture was the result of a fall rather than blows with a blunt weapon. In his charge on Wednesday, Mr Justice Coffey told the jury that in order to convict Mr Outram of murder, they must be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Mr Lyons’ fall and the fracture of his hip was either directly caused by the multiple blows inflicted on him or it was reasonably foreseeable that it was a natural consequence of these blows.
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