A 74-year-old pensioner died four days after being punched by a 21-year-old man while trying to help a woman being harassed. Marcus Fleming is charged with manslaughter and appeared in court for his first bail application. Police are objecting to his release due to concerns about potential further offenses or breaches of bail conditions.
A pensioner felled by a single punch was trying to help a woman being hassled by a defendant, a court heard today .
Sadly, 74-year-old Mr Miskimmon passed away from a subdural and subarachnoid haemorrhage four days after the incident. Opening the alleged facts of the case the officer said that according to the police case, it was around 7.30pm on 2 November when the female witness was walking along the Station Road and was approached by Fleming who asked her for a cigarette.
“The witness saw him punch the victim once to the face, causing him to fall straight to the ground,” said the officer and it was then, as Mr Miskimmon lay fatally injured that Fleming and the man with him allegedly tried blocked the witness from helping the pensioner. Turning to police objections the officer highlighted that Fleiming has almost 100 previous convictions including multiple entries for common assault and assaulting police as well as more than a dozen bail breaches.
That trial, Mr Powles submitted, is not likely to happen for a significant time and while the police view is that Fleming’s mother’s address is nit suitable, “the family and his mother specifically thought long and hard whether to proffer their support.”
MANSLAUGHTER PENSIONER HARASSMENT BAIL APPLICATION NORTHERN IRELAND
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