‘He called me an Irish bastard’

A former police officer accused of killing a fellow resident at a Salvation Army hostel claimed he was defending himself after the man called him a ‘big Irish bastard’. Oliver Hurley, 63, claims he pushed 56-year-old Manolito Chando backwards out of an elevator after he blocked the doors and threatened him. Mr Chando, who was ‘wobbling’ around because he was so drunk, fell over backwards and suffered catastrophic head injuries on 24 March last year. He was placed in a…