Teen lost finger during freak accident climbing fence

A teenager had one of his fingers cut off in a freak accident climbing over a fence, a court heard yesterday.

Mateusz Kacper Kaczynski of Tannery Gardens, off Redemption Road, Cork, brought the action against Cork County Council and the case went on throughout yesterday before Mr Justice Colm MacEochaidh.

The plaintiff, now 22, was 17 at the time of the accident on September 11, 2010, at the sports court in the municipal park in Carrigaline, Co Cork, where basketball and five-a-side football is played.