A 40-year-old man who had claimed to have suffered serious back pain after his bicycle was hit by a car has withdrawn his case after a court was shown video footage of him walking his dog | Read more:
Constantin Iosca, from Scholar's Walk, Lusk, Co Dublin, was suing the Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland , which compensates victims of uninsured and untraced drivers.Mr Justice Kevin Cross dismissed the proceedings and awarded costs to the defendant.
The judge had adjourned proceedings last Friday after video footage of Mr Iosca, taken by a security firm on behalf of the MIBI, was shown to the court.Mr Iosca, who is unemployed, claimed that he had suffered lower back pain, which had caused considerable disruption to his life. He said he was brought by ambulance to the emergency department at Beaumont Hospital, where he was kept overnight for observation and discharged the following day on crutches.
In another video taken in January 2019, he was shown being pushed in a wheelchair to an office in Dublin city centre and using two crutches to mount some steps into the office with assistance from others.
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