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"Chancer" Tik Tok "Star" has 60k bus fall claim thrown out

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  • 23-11-2021 4:26pm
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    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,481 ✭✭✭✭


    This fella was looking for 60k. This is brilliant 😆

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/circuit-court/judge-throws-out-tiktok-star-s-damages-claim-over-bus-injury-1.4736414

    The court was told during cross-examination by Gerard O’Herlihy, on behalf of Dublin Bus, that McMillan had received €35,000 of social welfare since having fallen from a seat on a bus at Fairview, Dublin, in January 2016.

    McMillan denied a suggestion by Mr O’Herlihy that he had defrauded the social welfare department by claiming disability benefit when clear evidence from his own online dance videos revealed he had not been disabled in any way. He said he had not lied to his own doctors, the defendants’ doctors or to the court.

    Barrister Frank Martin, counsel for Suttle Landscapes, whose driver Deirdre Fairbrother had allegedly caused the bus to brake suddenly, told McMillan he appeared like “Mr Wobbly” on the bus following an incident in which CCTV showed that no other passenger had been thrown from their seat.



    Mr Martin, who appeared with Tormey’s Solicitors, put it to Mr McMillan that his own GP thought he was a “chancer” and had given him no treatment in relation to his alleged back injuries.

    The court had been shown McMillan dancing and doing squats and flips in videos which he had put up on his various social media accounts including his dance routine to Shaggy’s It Wasn’t Me on YouTube.

    Judge Quinn said he had heard and seen enough and dismissed McMillan’s case. The judge ordered that he pay the legal costs of Dublin Bus; Suttle Landscapes, Clontarf, Dublin, and of Deirdre Fairbrother, Estuary Road, Malahide, Co Dublin, the driver of Suttle’s vehicle that had allegedly caused the bus to brake suddenly.



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