MORE DETAILS of the horrific death of Co Donegal man William McKeeney emerged in a Scottish court today where two men are charged with his racially-motivated murder.
Mr McKeeney, from Malin Head, was allegedly kicked to death by two men in an attack on Melville Street in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow in January.
His partner witnessed the attack from the flat they shared – and last Friday’s court heard how the incident was heard on a mobile phone.
The jury in the trial of Adel Ishaq and Asif Rehman was today shown graphic post mortem photographs of Mr McKeeney’s body.
A patholgist told his murder trial that his injuries were similar to those sustained by somebody who had fallen from a high building or been knocked over by a car.
Dr McAdam told the High Court in Kilmarnock that the 57-year-old suffered 15 injuries to the head, some of which were so severe that footprints were left on his skin.
She also said that there were three injuries to his body, but these were only discovered on internal examination.
She said that one blow had ruptured his diaphragm and another had ruptured the splenic artery, a major blood vessel.
She told the jury that the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the abdomen, with blunt force trauma to the head a contributory factor.
The court has heard that labourer Mr McKeeney had been walking home from a local pub when he was attacked. He died later in hospital.
The accused men deny murder.
The prosecution allege that Donegal man was attacked because he was white.