Dungannon man jailed for punching cousin 18 times in fight captured on motorcyclist’s camera

A 28-year old man who punched his cousin in the head around 18 times during a fight in the Belfast’s city centre was handed a nine-month prison sentence on Tuesday.

Belfast Crown Court heard that while Dwayne Michael Mullan didn’t start the drink-and-drug fuelled altercation, he “very much finished it.”

Mullan, from Fairmount Park in Dungannon, pleaded guilty to a single charge of attempting to wound his cousin with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm on November 26 last year.

Crown prosecutor Peter Magill said that on the day in question, the cousins and a female had been drinking in the city centre and that around 5.50pm a fight between the two men broke out in Amelia Street.

The altercation - which was captured on a camera installed on a passing motorcyclist’s helmet - then spilled onto the junction of James Street South and Brunswick Street.

Telling Judge Gordon Kerr QC there was “no doubt” the cousin started the fight, Mr Magill said the cousin ended up sitting on the ground with his shirt off - and at this stage Mullan was seen striking the other man on the head around 18 times “with what appears to be his fist.”

Mullan was arrested when police arrived, while his injured cousin refused to co-operate and subsequently sought not to have Mullan prosecuted.