Grenagh man found dead in a pool of blood
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Thursday March 11 2010
A 62 year old Grenagh man died from bruising to the brain together with bleeding into the brain following a fracture at the base of his skull, a pathologist this week told the trial of a 25 year old man accused of his murder.
Assistant State Pathologist Dr Declan Gilsenan said that the compression type injuries suffered by retired barman Donal Manley from Grenagh were consistent with somebody standing on his head as he lay on the ground and compressing his head against the floor.
Dr Gilsenan was giving evidence on the second day of the trial of Paul Murphy from Kilmore Road, Knocknaheeny, Cork who denies the murder of Mr Manley at his home at High Street in Cork city between October 10 and 12 2008.
Murphy also denies a charge of assault causing serious harm to Mr Manley and to stealing a number of items including a red jacket, a baseball cap, an umbrella, a gold watch, a flat screen TV and a Chorus Blackbox belonging to Mr Manley, all on the same occasion.
Dr Gilsenan told the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork how he found Mr Manley's body lying in a foetal position behind a couch in a downstairs living area of the terraced house in High Street when he was brought there by gardai on October 13, 2008.
There was a pool of blood on the carpet under his head and there was a lot of blood around
