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North Corkman found guilty of manslaughter after incident outside Kanturk pub

Wednesday, 13 February 2019 18:41

A 28 year old  North Corkman has been found guilty of manslaughter and remanded on bail for sentence over the death of a 65 year old man whom he struck with a single punch outside a bar in Kanturk.

Jonathan O’Sullivan from Kanturk but living at Birchfield Park, Goatstown, Dublin had pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of Finbarr Lehane at the Stand Bar, the Square, Kanturk on 23/24 October 2016.

But this Wednesday at Cork Circuit Criminal Court, a jury of nine men and three women found him guilty by a majority 11-1 decision of the unlawfully killing of Mr Lehane, a musician from Glen South in Banteer.

Mr Lehane died in Cork University Hospital on November 7th 2016 , some two weeks after suffering serious head injuries in the assault which happened outside the pub in Kanturk.

During the trial which ran for three days at the Anglesea Street Courthouse, the jury heard evidence from Assistant State Pathologist, Dr Margaret Bolster the cause of Mr Lehane’s death was complicated.

But prosecution barrister, Imelda Kelly BL said that the state was not under obligation to prove that the punch thrown by O’Sullivan was the sole cause but rather that it was a real and substantial cause.

Judge Sean O Donnabhain adjourned sentence to allow for preparation of a Victim Impact Statement by Mr Lehane’s family and he remanded O’Sullivan on bail to appear again on February 28th for sentencing.

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