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One punch attack...civil action as well as criminal?

Dancost · 2015-05-27 09:02:37

Hypothetical story here.... A lad is standing outside a well known pub on a main street in Galway a few months back, waiting for his friend to come outside, when a person he never met, never spoke to or never even made eye contact with, assaults him. It is one of those all too fashionable 'one punch attacks'. The fictional…

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#32 23-06-2015 3:36pm
Chemical Byrne

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Whats more how would the transaction for the €7k be executed. Are they typically cash payments or cheques or witnesses at the handover etc?

If cash what is to stop the victim continuing to press charges and when the accused brings up "what about the 7k?" the victim could just give the Seanie Gallagher response - ie, "I have no recollection of receiving €7k" ?

Of course he may present withdrawal slips etc, but who's to say he didn't blow it on prostitutes n coke or piss it up the wall?

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#33 24-06-2015 2:04am
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The payment would normally be made through lawyers. Or, at the very least, by cheque. There'll be a paper trail.

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