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A MAN HAS been found not guilty of murder, but guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of a man who, according to a court, died after being beaten during an all-day drinking session in a Co Kerry home five years ago .
The victim, Dmitry Hrynkevich, 24 meters tall, 24 years old, originally from Russia, died two days after being found unconscious and seriously injured in a protected home in Killeen Woods, Tralee.
He had suffered blunt trauma to his head, along with multiple injuries to his face and neck.
Arnoldas Ivanauskas, 33, a native of Lithuania residing in The Parklands, Tralee, had denied Hrynkevich’s murder.
The trial lasted just over three weeks at the Central Criminal Court in Limerick.
Hrynkevich was pronounced dead at Kerry General Hospital on October 2, 2015, 48 hours after the alleged attack.
The defendant told Gardaí, after his arrest, that he and the deceased were drinking liquor and beer in downtown Tralee that day, and continued drinking at Hrynkevich’s home that same night.
Ivanauskas told gardaí that Hrynkevich, whom he had met for the first time that day, slapped him three times in the face and that he slapped her back.
He claimed that a Pole, who was not in court, assaulted the deceased and that he “joined”.
Ivanauskas told gardaí that he hit the victim at least once on the side of the head, but that he “did not remember” how many times he had hit him.
He alleged that the Pole had “stamped” on the victim’s head and dragged him by the legs from the kitchen of the house to the main entrance door of the property.
The blood of the deceased was found on the clothes the defendant was wearing when he was arrested that same night.
Ivanauskas told Gardaí that he had borrowed the clothes from the Pole.
Hrynkevich was born with a serious genetic condition called Marfan syndrome, which required life-saving surgery.
In his teens, and later in his 20s, he underwent major surgery to correct a serious heart defect related to his condition.
After the surgeries, he was still considered to have a higher risk of sudden collapse.
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Hrynkevich died of loss of oxygen to the brain due to a heart attack related to Marfan syndrome, an autopsy concluded.
The autopsy, performed by retired state pathologist Professor Marie Cassidy, also found that “blunt trauma” to the deceased’s head had contributed to his death.
Hrynkevich had “elongated limbs” associated with Marfan syndrome, the trial reported.
It was the case of the State that the defendant together with the Pole had “acted together in a joint venture” and murdered the deceased.
The jury of seven men and five women reached a unanimous verdict today after just over four and a half hours of deliberations.
The defendant was held in custody in Cork prison to be sentenced before Judge Michael McGrath at the Dublin Criminal Justice Courts on 8 October.
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