Accused ‘stood out like beacon’

A YOUNG man with tattoos, a skinhead-style haircut and an Ireland soccer jersey “stood out like a beacon” during a Garda ID parade because everyone else in the line-up were “student-types” with mop-top hairstyles and rugby jerseys.

The man’s solicitor, Frank Buttimer, also claimed at Cork District Court the injured party had told gardaí the man who assaulted him had a moustache and that the defendant was the only one in the line-up with a moustache.

He said the defendant, Liam O’Keefe, of Ballyphehane, Cork, was escorted from the holding cell at Togher Garda station with no shoes.