Injured man ‘videoed going to shops’

The owners of a Kinsale hotel where a man claimed he fell from a third-floor window and ended up with life-changing injuries have applied to the High Court to have his action for damages dismissed.

Jason Platt, it has been submitted, has said he can not live independently following the incident and is housebound. However, video footage taken over nine days shows him going to the shops and driving his car.

Yesterday, Mr Justice Bernard Barton, who has already heard seven days of evidence in the action, was asked to dismiss the case, with the hotel side contending that some of the claims made by Mr Platt were “false and misleading”.