CCTV footage of an incident involving a McDonald's safety guard and a buyer was performed to a jury in Belfast immediately .
The incident captured the client being ejected from the entrance door of the eatery within the early hours of December 14, 2019.
He sustained a head wound which resulted in a bleed on the mind after he was ejected, fell backward and hit his head off the pavement.
Dylan Getty, who in December 2019 was working as a doorman at McDonalds, is standing trial at Belfast Crown Court docket on a cost of inflicting grievous bodily hurt on the client.
The 24-year-old, from Newtownabbey, has denied the cost.
As an alternative, he has made the case the client had already been aggressive and was put out, however returned.
Dylan has additionally claimed that after the client squared as much as him, he felt he was going to be struck so he pushed him out the door utilizing affordable pressure in self-defence.
After footage of the incident was performed to the jury of 9 males and three girls, the client was known as to the witness stand.
He mentioned that earlier than going to McDonald's for meals, he had been out with colleagues for a Christmas social gathering.
Regardless of having no recollection of what occurred, the client rejected defence strategies he was ‘closely intoxicated’ however accepted he had been consuming.
He was additionally proven the footage, and after it was put to him that he completed his meals then squared as much as Dylan, the client replied “I do not see it that approach.”
The client, who mentioned he had labored as a doorman himself, mentioned: “On the finish of the day, he ought to by no means have put his palms on me and pushed me out the door.”
When he was once more questioned about how a lot he needed to drink, the client replied: “I used to be drunk, it was Christmas, that does not deserve a bleed on the mind.”
He additionally refuted strategies he was being aggressive, and mentioned it was Dylan who was the aggressor “not the opposite approach spherical”.
At listening to.