The inquest in Ballaghaderreen into the death of Jasper Kraus, of Killahornia, Creagh, Ballinasloe, Co Roscommon, heard he was attacked by a Brahma chicken. The ...
He said cause of death was due to lethal cardiac arrhythmia in the context of severe coronary atheroma and cardiomegaly. He was also on a lot of medication at the time. She said she then “realised that it must have been the chicken” that caused her father’s death.
A MAN DIED after he wasattacked by an aggressive chicken, an inquest has heard.Jasper Kraus, of Killahornia, Creagh, Ballinasloe, Co Roscommon,
He was also on a lot of medication at the time. Garda Browne said the man was lying on the kitchen floor in a pool of blood and had a wound inflicted on the back of one of his legs. When asked by Ms Guinan if her father had suffered a heart attack, he agreed and said another contributory factor was that the blood supply to the man’s heart was “severely calcified”. She discovered a trail of blood from the house to where the chicken house was located. [Co Roscommon](https://www.thesun.ie/where/roscommon/), was found in a pool of blood and had a wound inflicted on the back of one of his legs. His daughter Virginia Guinan said in a deposition heard at the inquest in Ballaghaderreen that she later found a trail of blood leading to the chicken house.
Cancer survivor Jasper Kraus, of Killahornia, Creagh, Ballinasloe in Roscommon suffered puncture wounds to his left leg that caused massive bleeding, his ...
When she arrived, Virginia also noticed that there was a puncture wound to his left leg which caused a massive amount of bleeding. Virginia said prior to that he had renal failure. He said he also noticed the trail of blood which led out towards the chicken house and said the chicken that attacked his landlord was on the property "because it was aggressive before” and had attacked a child at a different house. When asked by Virginia if her dad had a heart attack, he agreed and said another contributory factor was that the blood supply to the man’s heart was “severely calcified”. During the inquest into his death which was in held in Ballaghaderreen, Garda Eoin Browne said that he was called out to the scene of a sudden death where he was met by paramedics. She went on to say she had to clean up her dad’s blood in the house and argued that there should be support for people who find themselves in the situation. Virginia also recalled spotting a trail of blood from the house all the way to the chicken house and at that point said she “realised that it must have been the chicken” that caused her dad’s death. She noticed that one of the chickens had blood on its claws and said she believed it was the culprit because that particular bird had also “attacked my daughter before”. Corey said during this time, Jasper was falling in and out of consciousness but revealed he was saying the word “rooster”. She said the TV was still on in the other room and a cigarette was still smoking. Virginia said at the time of the chicken attack, her dad was on a lot of medication. She said she didn’t want to wake him up because his dog had recently died and she said he was upset.
Jasper Kraus, of Killahornia in Ireland, died following a vicious assault by the same bird that had earlier attacked his granddaughter.
A puncture wound on his leg had resulted in massive bleeding. When she arrived, paramedics were already at the scene attempting to perform CPR. An aggressive chicken left a man dead in a pool of blood, an inquest has heard.