A consultant in emergency medicine has said that he thought that a man who was allegedly stabbed by his brother would die as he had a wound to his chest which was “actively hissing”.<\/p>\n
William Brennan, 32, of Longbridge, Ballyhalwick, Dunmanway, Co Cork denies assault causing serious harm to his brothers John and Jerry Brennan Jnr amid a family dispute about property.<\/p>\n
He has also pleaded not guilty to producing a knife in the same alleged incident at a property in Ballyhalwick, Dunmanway, Co Cork on 17 August, 2024.<\/p>\n
John and Jerry Brennan Jnr were taken to Dunmanway Community Hospital on the evening of 17 August, 2024 by a “Good Samaritan” who stopped on the road and offered assistance.<\/p>\n
Dr Jason van der Velde told a trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court that he thought the pleural cavity surrounding the lungs of John Brennan had been breached.<\/p>\n
He stated that they had to stop him from having a “catastrophic haemorrhage”.<\/p>\n
The medic said the scene was “chaotic”. The injured men were stripped naked so that their injuries could be properly assessed.<\/p>\n
Dr van der Velde said that a decision was made to transfer John to Cork University Hospital (CUH) for treatment.<\/p>\n
“Time was critical. I genuinely believed he (John) would die from internal injuries.<\/p>\n
“The medic said that John was ‘in extreme pain’ and was given “an extremely strong inhaled analgesic.”<\/p>\n
Dr van der Velde also told the jury of the injuries sustained by Jerry Jnr.<\/p>\n
He said that he put a medical tourniquet on the left upper arm of Jerry Jnr as he had an active bleed.<\/p>\n
This replaced a makeshift tourniquet, which Jerry Jnr had on arrival at the facility. Jerry Jnr was taken to CUH by road for further treatment.<\/p>\n
The doctor also spoke of attending the scene of the alleged stabbing incident in Ballyhalwick later that evening.<\/p>\n
He said that the accused man, William Brennan, was “extremely calm”.<\/p>\n
“He was monosyllabic. He had absolutely no emotion whatsoever. He never made eye contact or actively avoided it.<\/p>\n
“He had defensive wounds to his left forearm and to his right arm consistent with blunt force trauma by a heavy object.”<\/p>\n
Dr van der Velde described Jerry Brennan Snr as a “frail” man who was “very shook” but not otherwise injured.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the jurors heard that William Brennan told garda\u00ed that he produced a knife to defend himself after his brothers attacked him with an object. He said that the object was “possibly an iron bar”.<\/p>\n
Garda Joe Maher said in evidence at Cork Circuit Criminal Court that he attended at the scene of the alleged incident in Ballyhalwick on the evening of 17 August, 2024.<\/p>\n
He said that when he arrived at the property Jerry Brennan Snr and his son William Brennan were sitting in a parked car.<\/p>\n
Gda Maher asked the men if they had any weapons. He directed them to dispose of them.<\/p>\n
He told the jury that Jerry Brennan Snr threw a knife out of the car and onto the grass verge.<\/p>\n
He said that William Brennan told him that he had acted in self-defence after he was attacked. William Brennan was arrested at the scene.<\/p>\n
Gda Maher said that garda\u00ed were also informed that two men had been taken to Dunmanway Community Hospital that evening with “serious stab wounds”.<\/p>\n
Defence barrister Jane Hyland, SC, put it to Garda Maher that William Brennan had made a 999 call.<\/p>\n
She said that he also told garda\u00ed that he had been attacked and had used a knife in self-defence.<\/p>\n
The garda said that he had “no prior knowledge of the family.” He said he was aware that on the morning of the alleged offences garda\u00ed had received a report that an excavator owned by William Brennan was burned out.<\/p>\n
Garda Jonathan O’Donovan said that he spoke to William Brennan on the night of the alleged incident.<\/p>\n
William said when he arrived at the yard of the property earlier that evening, his brother Jerry Jnr called him “pathetic” and a “virgin boy”.<\/p>\n
He stated that he was then hit with an object by his brother John, who he claimed was wearing a balaclava.<\/p>\n
Jane Hyland said that her client had indicated that a”litany of aggression had been perpetrated on him by his brothers”.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in her outline of the case to the jury on Wednesday, Prosecution barrister Imelda Kelly said that the alleged stabbing incident related to a “family dispute” in respect of a property at Ballyhalwick.<\/p>\n
“The property had been in the ownership of Jeremiah Brennan Snr and it had been signed over to three brothers a number of years before. The yard was in common ownership between the brothers.<\/p>\n
The case will continue next Tuesday before Judge Helen Boyle and the jury of eight men and four women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A consultant in emergency medicine has said that he thought that a man who was allegedly stabbed by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-428750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}