Judge adjourns sentencing of Andrew Nash (43) for 2017 manslaughter of John Ustic (51) in Skibbereen, Co Cork
Det Sgt Kevin Long of Friday outlined the background to the killing, saying Nash was with his friends Tom Fitchett and Nicola Colgan on September 24th when he received a phone call from his mother, Suzanne Fenton. She told him that Mr Ustic, her partner of eight years, “was at her”, so Nash persuaded his friends to drive him to Skibbereen.
Mr Ustic was highly intoxicated and could not get out of the car, so Nash aggressively pulled him out. This caused Mr Ustic to hit his head off the ground, causing a wound, but Nash and his friends left him on the ground in the car park. Ms Fenton, who was upstairs when Nash and Mr Fitchett brought Mr Ustic home, found Mr Ustic unresponsive the next morning and shouted from an upstairs window asking neighbours to call gardaí.
Det Sgt Long said that Prof Cassidy said that having such a high level of alcohol in his system would have made it difficult for Mr Ustic to defend himself. But she added that his injuries were so severe that they would have proven fatal even for a sober and healthy person. The court heard that Mr Ustic had a daughter, Paige Edens, who provided a victim impact statement in which she said her father was the only person who really understood her and what “it was like to be an outsider in this world”.
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