Attack accused ‘wanted to make little of victim’

A LITHUANIAN man told gardaí he shoved an iron bar up another man’s rectum and then urinated on him to make little of him — as is, he said, the tradition in his country — because he owed him money for drugs, a trial in Galway heard yesterday.

Gintautas Bagdonas, aged 32, formerly of Clan House, Dominick Street, Galway, and co-accused Aurelijus Zrielskis, aged 36, formerly of 26 Cois Chlair, Claregalway, both deny the false imprisonment of Jaan Eemon, aged 33, at Francis Cottage, Menlo, Galway, on May 25, 2010.

Both men also deny intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to Mr Eemon in a shed.