Man danced around victim in ‘triumphant gesture’

A man danced around the motionless body of a 25-year-old he had just assaulted and raised his arms aloft in a “triumphant gesture,” a court heard yesterday.

Jason Morrissey, aged 23, from Toomevara in Co Tipperary, was sent to prison for a total of 18 years after he admitted the manslaughter of James Tynan, 25, in an unprovoked attack in Thurles in the early hours of Feb 19 last year.

He pleaded guilty to three other, unconnected, assaults causing harm on three victims which occurred on separate dates in Thurles during a five-day period in Feb 2012.