The Kerryman (South Kerry Edition)
Bolster outlines horrific injuries
ONE of the most significant events of the trial came when Assistant State Pathologist Dr Margot Bolster gave evidence of the ‘catastrophic’ multiple injuries suffered by Anthony O’Mahony when his car was rammed by Michael Ferris’ twin pronged teleporter.
Dr Bolster told a hushed courtroom about five major ‘gaping’ penetrative wounds to Mr O’Mahony’s head and body, including two that had penetrated through his body.
She said there were also fractures and cuts on his hands which, Dr Bolster said, were possibly “defensive injuries”.
His abdomen had suffered a “full split” and Mr O’Mahony’s heart and liver had been “totally avulsed” and were found next to the driver’s seat and in the foot-well of the vehicle.
There were also multiple fractures of his ribs, backbone, pelvis and other bones.
Summing up her evidence Dr Bolster said that Mr O’Mahony’s death was the result of “polytrauma, the total avulsion of his heart and liver with multiple penetrative wounds” and that his injuries were consistent with being caused by the prongs of a teleporter such as the one that she had been shown by gardaí at the scene.
Mr O’Mahony’s family were extremely distressed by the graphic nature of the evidence which clearly shocked many of those present in the court.