A SUPERMARKET boss was so badly beaten that paramedics thought he'd been shot in the head, a court heard yesterday.
The claim was made at the start of the murder trial of two 26- year-old Lithuanian men Andrius Dunauskas and Ramunas Balseris.
The pair blame each other for the "brutal and sustained assault" on Shaun Fitzpatrick in the early hours of March 23, 2008.
The Co Tyrone man's lifeless and battered body was found in an alleyway off the Donaghmore Road in Dungannon Fake Prada Handbags after Dunauskas, of Lisnahull Road in the Co Tyrone town, flagged down a passing motorist, claiming he was looking for help.
First treated as a witness and then arrested as a suspect, Dunauskas allegedly claimed that while walking home, his friend Balseris said he wanted to fight and suggested attacking 32-year- old Mr Fitzpatrick, which he did by punching him.
Dunauskas also admitted punching him, knocking him to the ground, but claimed Balseris then kicked him in the head before robbing the fatally injured victim of pounds 5 and a mobile phone.
The court heard in earlier evidence how the Spar supermarket manager could have been beaten to death because he was gay.
However, Balseris, from Altmore Drive, who gave himself up to police the day after the attack, Clerc Fake claimed it was Dunauskas who was the aggressor.
He alleged that when they saw Mr Fitzpatrick, Dunauskas said he was gay and that he didn't like gays.
Dunauskas then allegedly lashed out at him with a martial arts- type kick, before repeatedly kicking him.
Balseris claimed he tried to stop his friend, and took no part in the brutal attack. He said he only left Mr Fitzpatrick after checking for and finding a pulse.
Prosecuting QC Stephen Fowler, who claimed the two friends attacked Mr Fitzpatrick before dragging him over 20 meters up the alleyway, said when Seiko Replica Watch paramedics checked his body "for signs of life ... there were none". He added that the supermarket manager had been "repeatedly and unmercifully beaten about the head and was so covered in blood, injured and badly beaten that the paramedics checked in case he had been shot in the head".
Mr Fowler also told the jury there was a "considerable amount of blood dispersed throughout" the whole area of the alleyway between Nos 32 and 36 Donaghmore Road.
Mr Fowler said a postmortem revealed Mr Fitzpatrick had 36 seperate injuries to his head, neck, upper chest and body, with some patterened bruising suggesting it came from stomping from the sole of a shoe.
Earlier the Crown lawyer claimed that Dunauska tried to clash with Mr Fitzpartrick while both were drinking in Donaghy's Bar in William Street before the fatal attack.
Mr Fowler claimed Dunauskas was identified as the man who had to be restrained by two other eastern European men as he lunged at Mr Fitzpatrick as he was returning from having a cigarette.
The trial continues.
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