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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51206752

    Gerald Corrigan 'shot with crossbow' while fixing satellite dish

    (From top left) Gavin Jones, Darren Jones, Terence Whall and Martin RobertsImage captionGavin Jones, Darren Jones, Martin Roberts and Terence Whall have denied the charges


    A 74-year-old man was "callously" shot with a crossbow after going outside in the dark to fix his satellite dish, a murder trial has heard.


    Mold Crown Court heard someone was hiding "probably behind a wall" armed with the "silent, quick and deadly weapon", waiting for Gerald Corrigan.

    He died three weeks after the 19 April shooting at his remote Anglesey home.

    Terence Whall, 39, denies murder, telling police he was in a nearby field having a sexual encounter with a man.

    He also denies a charge of perverting the course of justice, along with three others, amid allegations they conspired together to set fire to a vehicle later found burnt out.

    The other three - Martin Roberts, 34, of James Street in Bangor, Darren Jones, 41, of the Bryn Ogwen estate at Penrhosgarnedd and Gavin Jones, 36, of High Street, Bangor - also deny the charges.

    Jurors heard Mr Corrigan lived with his 64-year-old partner Marie Bailey, who had multiple sclerosis, and that he was in effect her carer.

    They lived at Gof Du, situated in about 30 acres near South Stack, close to the coastal path.

    "It isn't a place that you could simply pass by - to go there, you had to intend to go there," prosecution barrister Peter Rouch QC said.

    According to details retained by Sky, at about midnight Mr Corrigan was watching a recorded programme. Gerald CorriganImage Image captionGerald Corrigan died three weeks after being shot outside his Anglesey home

    Some time between 00:08 and 00:28 BST, the Sky signal was interrupted and Mr Corrigan went outside to look at the dish.

    The court heard the outside security lights had not worked for the best part of 18 months.

    The prosecutor said: "He must have bent over the Sky dish, with his right hand resting on the house wall. This must have occurred within a minute or so before 12:30am.

    "He felt a terrible pain to his body and thought that somehow he had been electrocuted by the Sky dish.

    "He suddenly had a bleeding and broken arm, which he thought was part of the electrocution," he explained.

    The court heard the bolt entered his left hand side, passing completely through his body, cutting his spleen and penetrating his large intestine and stomach.

    It also caused damage to his gastric artery, penetrated his liver, colon and diaphragm, and bruised his heart, before exiting his body more or less through his right chest.

    'Heart attack'

    "So silent and quick is a crossbow that Mr Corrigan had no idea what had happened to him. All he knew was that he was in terrible pain," Mr Rouch said.

    "He went back into the house and shouted loudly for his partner, managed to walk up the stairs, where she saw he was in lots of pain, bleeding heavily from his arm and was very frightened.

    "Mr Corrigan said he thought he had been electrocuted by the Sky dish, and thought he was having a heart attack," he said.

    Jurors heard a paramedic using a torch noticed the gate to a neighbouring field was open and also found an arrow on the grass which appeared to be covered in blood.

    Mr Corrigan received emergency surgery at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor, which included the removal of his spleen and surgical repairs to the damage to his colon and stomach, and was placed into an induced coma.

    He was airlifted to the Royal Stoke Hospital but died on 11 May.

    Mr Rouch told the jury the shooter was about 10m (32ft) away and would have to have been proficient in using a crossbow, while considerable planning - including angles and distance - would have been needed.:shocked3::zip it::censor:

    "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another. The motto of enlightenment is therefore: Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own understanding!"


    http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/CCREAD/etscc/kant.html

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