Corkman left 'deeply comatose' after attack, court told

A Corkman who was left in a coma after an attack and died nine months later was in a "deeply comatose" state, a murder trial at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

Dr Michael O'Sullivan, a consultant neurosurgeon at Cork University Hospital, told the jury of nine women and three men that when he measured Mr Scully's level of consciousness using the Glasgow Como Scale, he registered the lowest scale of 3.