Man 'drowned' in bathtub hours after 'telling paramedics he was battered by housemate'
20.11.2022 - 17:01
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
A man informed a 999 call handler he had been "battered s***less" before his housemates found his dead body and claimed he drowned in the bath, a murder trial has heard. Cheryl O'Callaghan allegedly attacked Adrian Swift, 57 with a baseball bat and is said to have pushed him down the stairs in their Bishopsgate Street home in Wavertree, the Liverpool Echo reports.
The victim was admitted to hospital with serious injuries but discharged himself several hours before his death and was allegedly discovered by O'Callaghan and two other flatmates who told police he had drowned in the bathtub. Liverpool Crown Court heard on November 18 Mr Swift "led a life afflicted by addictions to alcohol and drugs" and by the time of his death was "frail, unwell and vulnerable".
Alex Leach KC, prosecuting, told a jury of six men and six women that in March last year he had been living at the address with O’Callaghan and her co-defendants Adam Oldland and Steven Hardaker. On March 23 2021, the day before his death, he was taken to hospital after a 999 call in which he told the operator he had been "battered s***less".
Mr Swift also told paramedics it was 46-year-old O'Callaghan, of Stanton Crescent in Kirkby, who relentlessly beat him with a bat and pushed him down a flight of stairs. Despite his "serious facial and bodily injuries" Swift discharged himself from hospital and returned to the property where he would be reported dead by Oldland, of Sunnyside, Sefton Park to emergency services just three hours later.
The 51-year-old, O'Callaghan and Hardaker "all gave an account of Mr Swift having suffered the injuries that took him to hospital as a result of a fall down some stairs". They also stated he had been discovered submerged underwater in
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