'It was pure theatrics': Cork court hears of bizarre behaviour in compensation case

Bizarre and theatrical behaviour by a man in the back of a Nissan Micra at the scene of a minor traffic incident saw him hold himself rigid and reach for his head, neck and back, moan in agony and insist that the fire brigade cut the roof off the car to get him to hospital.

At one stage in the colourful evidence at Cork Circuit Court, Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin asked the plaintiff, John Stokes of 2 Deerpark, Charleville, Co Cork, “Did you look for a helicopter?” He did not.