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Tyrone backpacker awarded $363,000 after being beaten by Oz bouncer

Lost hearing in right ear, attack unprovoked

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CATHY HAYES,
IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Friday, February 3, 2012, 8:06 AM
Updated Friday, February 3, 2012, 10:05 AM

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Patrick Crilly
Patrick Crilly
Photo by Glenn Barnes Source: The Daily Telegraph


Twenty five year old Patrick Crilly, an Irish backpacker who was beaten by a bouncer in Australia three years ago has been awarded more than $363,000 in compensation.

Crilly, from Cookstown County Tyrone, lost the hearing in his right ear after the unprovoked attack in Sydney on December 20 2008. Since the attack Crilly has also suffered balance problems and bleeding on the brain.

According to a report in the Belfast Telegraph Crilly, who has been living in Brisbane since the assault, sued the security company which employed the bouncer who worked at the Moore Park View Hotel in the Sydney suburb of Waterloo.

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The district court heard that at about 11PM on the night of the attack the security guard grabbed Crilly, punching him on the jaw under the chin. When Crilly fell he hit his head on the concrete pavement losing consciousness and beginning to vomit.

Crilly was drunk at the time of the incident, and had been attempting to help a friend who became involved in a fight on the footpath outside the pub.

The court ruled that Crilly, who is employed as a metal worker, did nothing to provoke the assault. The hotel bouncer was given a suspended jail term after being convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

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seanomelb | Feb 04, 2012, 04:41 PM EST
Pay a visit murph instead of crapping on about a country you know nothing about.Isolated incidents taken out of context by you and cillowen tu justify your ignorant and pathetic lives.

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gobdawpaddy | Feb 04, 2012, 11:04 AM EST
Similar to the GAA game that I saw reported on last week. a Tyrone team were involved in that.

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cillowen | Feb 03, 2012, 07:25 PM EST
australia is as bad as the madness that I see daily over the internet on ireland. Desperate people who've bought into the culture that is being pushed by our troika masters. Ya'll can figure who glides over such crud.

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cillowen | Feb 03, 2012, 07:23 PM EST
australia is as bad as the madness that I see daily over the internet on ireland. Desperate people who've bought into the culture that is being pushed by our troika masters.

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Curitiba | Feb 03, 2012, 05:27 PM EST
This fellow got away quite lightly in comparison to a young Corkman who was left in a wheelchair after a beating by two youths in the Sydney suburb of Coogee in 2008. A lot of random beatings happen in Australia.

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Murph46 | Feb 03, 2012, 04:35 PM EST
Nice travel poster-Come to Australia,get the krap knocked out ya-take home $363,000!

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Curitiba | Feb 03, 2012, 04:11 PM EST
The Gold Coast Bulletin is full of these sort of stories, bouncers beating the living daylights out of stroppy drinkers in and around the bars and clubs of Surfers Paradise, Queensland.

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Murph46 | Feb 03, 2012, 10:32 AM EST
Hey Sean Melb is this your wonderful Australia?

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