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Fermoy murder trial continues

Thursday, 2 May 2019 17:31

A key witness in the trial of two men charged with the murder of a 40 year old father of two at a filling station in North Cork insisted that he and the deceased only wanted to scare the accused when they returned to the filling station armed with two iron bars.

Pole, Mariusz Osail (40) said that he and his friend, Hungarian Ludovit Pastorz (40) only wanted to scare Polish truck drivers, Tomasz Wasowicz (45) and Marcin Skrzpezyk (31) when they went back to confront them at the Amber filling station in Fermoy on 21st February 2017.

He confirmed that they had an earlier confrontation with the two Polish truck drivers when they were leaving the filing station after buying eight cans of Carlsberg at around 9.45pm on the day in question, explaining that there had been “some unpleasant chat” between them.

Both Mr Wasowicz and Mr Skrzpezyk, who were working as drivers for Macroom Haulage, both denied the murder  of Mr Pasztor at the Amber Filling Station at Carrignagroghera, Fermoy on February 21st 2017 when they were arraigned at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork earlier this week,

Mr Osail said that he and Mr Pasztor had been drinking earlier in the day and that when they returned to his house some 300 metres away after buying more beer at 9.45pm, they had another drink when Mr  Pasztor asked him for some bars and he pointed him to a dismantled trampoline behind a shed.

“Ludo was insisting, he was saying it constantly and I said Leave it, leave it – let’s stay at home and drink more beers’ I don’t know why we didn’t stay at home – I don’t know, I was just drunk – I am blaming myself, I live with it all the time, I have trauma because of it all the time,” he said. The case continues.

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