Fergal Doherty

Aaron Law, aged 34 was found with injuries on Main Street Portglenone in the early hours of Sunday and later died in Antrim Area Hospital. Fergal Gerard Doherty ...

That was the only reason I’m not minded to admit him to bail,” he said, adding bail could be revisited when the witnesses have been spoken to. “Mr Doherty wept in the course of the interview … “Mr Doherty wants to offer his great sympathies to the family. “There is a concern that the court would have that there is a risk that the defendant could either interfere with the investigation or the course of justice. “In all the circumstances in this case, it is as obvious a case of self-defence as I’ve come across in 30 years of practising as a defence criminal lawyer.” “This was in the middle of the road, Mr Law attempted to hit Mr Doherty and Mr Doherty reacted by punching Mr Law to the face causing Mr Law to fall back on to his head and his head connecting with the road,” the police officer told the court. “Aaron Law threw a punch at him, and he threw one punch back at him and Mr Law fell back and hit his head,” he told the court, contending there is no evidence that contradicts Doherty’s account of what happened. “He has a clear record, he has never been in any trouble with the police,” he said. “It’s entirely prejudicial in the absence of any evidence that would be acceptable in a court of law,” he said. The police officer said a witness said Mr Law was lying on the road for between 10 to 15 minutes before Doherty and the door staff member returned, pulled him on to the footpath and propped him against the wall of the bar. He said Doherty followed the member of door staff as they escorted Mr Law outside the bar, and intervened between the pair during what was described as a “verbal altercation”. Mr Law was described as having been left lying in the middle of the road, where at one point a car had to brake to avoid colliding with him.

Aaron Law, 34, died after he was found injured in the Co Antrim village on Sunday.

That was the only reason I’m not minded to admit him to bail,” he said, adding bail could be revisited when the witnesses have been spoken to. “Mr Doherty wept in the course of the interview … “Mr Doherty wants to offer his great sympathies to the family. “There is a concern that the court would have that there is a risk that the defendant could either interfere with the investigation or the course of justice. “He has a clear record, he has never been in any trouble with the police,” he said. “This was in the middle of the road, Mr Law attempted to hit Mr Doherty and Mr Doherty reacted by punching Mr Law to the face causing Mr Law to fall back on to his head and his head connecting with the road,” the police officer told the court.

Former Derry senior football captain Fergal Doherty has been charged with manslaughter, after a man lost his life in Antrim on Sunday.

A member of the public noted that Mr. Law who had been lying on the road for 10-15 minutes. [Derry](https://twitter.com/Doiregaa) at senior level from 2001 until 2015, and was appointed captain of the team in 2009. It was claimed that Doherty returned to the bar before he and the doorman returned to Mr. A detective sergeant said the victim, a father-of-two, was being escorted off the premises at the time after being involved in a “verbal altercation” with a doorman. Doherty, the owner of the bar, appeared at Ballymena Magistrates Court on Thursday, where he was charged with the manslaughter of Mr.