The case was heard at Enniskillen Courthouse
AN ENNISKILLEN man who lashed out at door staff during a scuffle outside Pat’s Bar in the town centre has been handed an 18 month conditional discharge.
Twenty-nine year old Michael Patrick Kerr from College Gardens, Chanterhill admitted a single charge of disorderly behaviour relating to an incident in December last year.
On December 22, police were on duty at Townhall Street when, at around 1.10am, they received reports of a disturbance outside Pat’s Bar involving a number of males.
Officers spoke to door staff, one of who had a cut on his nose and was covered in blood.
The defendant was spoken to and cautioned and he told police his father had been assaulted outside the bar.
The defendant’s father was located and he had a large swelling above his eye. When the defendant talked to his father he became upset and said he wanted to find who had done this to his father.
When police tried to lead to defendant away he told them to ‘F*** off’
He was arrested and taken to Enniskillen police station where he admitted being involved in a fracas outside the pub door involving door staff. He said the door staff had grabbed him and he lashed out and accepted he struck one of them – and this was after his father had been assaulted.
The defendant’s father attended the police station as well, and CCTV footage from the bar was viewed but it wasn’t possible to see who had assaulted him.
The defendant told police if he struck someone it wasn’t intentional, saying he had been acting in ‘self defence’, and his behaviour had been ‘shameful’.
Niall Bogue, defending, said his client, who works as a leisure attendant at a local health club and also coaches a soccer team, had just returned from honeymoon.
Deputy District Judge Paul Conway said the defendant had a very different attitude when sober than when intoxicated imposing the conditional discharge.
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