Pathologist said deceased would have wiped blood from his face if he was perfectly healthy after suffering head injuries
The pathologist gave evidence last Tuesday that Mr Lyons suffered multiple blows to his head and neck from a blunt weapon, before his blood-smeared body was found slumped in his armchair at his home.
Dr Bolster said this was not a trivial head injury as there were multiple areas of haemorrhage to Mr Lyons’ head as well as “shearing” of his nerve fibres which implied that sufficient force had been used to disrupt those fibres. “There would have been some alteration in his levels of consciousness,” she added.
Dr Bolster commented that the deceased would at least have wiped the blood from his face if he was perfectly healthy after suffering the head injuries. The barrister further put it to the witness that while she was saying to the jury that it was reasonably possible that there could have been some effects, she was not excluding the possibility that there might not have been.
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