A Dublin man has been found guilty by a jury of the manslaughter of a Limerick man in the early hours of the morning at a petrol station near Heuston Station in Dublin.
William McDonnell (39), of Mary Aikenhead House, James Street, has been remanded in custody for sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on June 19th next.
He was convicted by the jury after almost five hours deliberations on day six of the trial of the unlawful killing of Mr Thomas Maloney (27) from Cosgrave Park, Limerick on May 3rd, 2002. McDonnell denied the charge and the jury was told he acted in self-defence.
A co-accused, Francis Kenny (44) of Basin Street Flats, who pleaded guilty earlier to manslaughter charge is also scheduled for sentence on June 19th next.
The charge arose out of an incident at the Statoil Service Station, Ushers Quay some hours after the deceased man missed his train back to Limerick on April 21st, 2002.
Mr Maloney, who would have been 28-years-old last week, was removed first to St James Hospital and then to Beaumont Hospital where he died 12 days later, on May 3rd, 2002, after his respiratory and renal systems failed.
Dr Marie Cassidy, Deputy State Pathologist, said Mr Maloney died of complications arising out of "severe brain damage from which he was unlikely to make any significant recovery." She said his brain had been "severely and irreparably damaged".