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Two Irish friends have been acquitted of murdering a homeless man in Australia.
Donegal merchants Nathan Kelly, 23, and Christopher McLaughlin, 25, were found not guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of Paul Tavelardis.
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The housemates had been charged with murder for the death in Sydney in 2018.
The family of Mr. Tavelardis, 66, says that there have been no results from the death of their relative.
A family statement read: “We are angry about what has happened. There is no justice for our father. “
On December 28, 2018, the couple lived together in Summer Hill and had been drinking for 12 hours, the court previously heard.
CCTV PHOTOGRAPH
They drank ciders by the pool in their apartment block on Grosvenor Crescent and then went to a local hotel.
They were kicked out of the pub for being too drunk and late night CCTV shows them lying on the steps of the nearby train station.
In the early hours of the next morning they quarreled with Mr. Tavelardis.
They argued that they had been attacked by him.
In an interview with police, Kelly lifted his top to show a welt on his back where he said Tavelardis had hit him.
WOUNDS ON THE HEAD
The couple kicked and hit the homeless man, and he sustained serious head injuries.
A bystander who called emergency services said he believed a man was being killed.
The person said, “There are two men below me killing a guy, just bring the police here.”
The aboriginal died in the hospital on January 7, 2019.
At a hearing in December last year, Trial Judge Elizabeth Fullerton said it was clear that “very, very serious alcohol intoxication” was a factor in the alleged crime.
He added that there was “some degree of disability” on the part of the two men at the time of the incident.
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Lawyers for the two defendants argued that they never intended to kill or cause serious harm and were responding to an attack by Mr. Tavelardis, who lived in his car on the street.
After deliberating for nearly a week, a New South Wales Supreme Court jury yesterday found Kelly and McLaughlin innocent of murder and manslaughter.
Both had spent more than 20 months in pretrial detention and their work and vacation visas have since been revoked.
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