Gardening row leaves soil siever with head wound

SHOREDITCH

A disabled Scotsman split his elderly Irish neighbour’s head open with a walking stick after a furious row erupted in a communal garden. Andrew Fyall, 53, allegedly battered 74-year-old Tommy O’Laughlin and left him with a two inch gash to his head. Prosecutor Arabella MacDonald said the argument began as Mr O’Laughlin sieved soil in the shed behind a residential block in Shoreditch, east London, on 20 March last year. ‘This case involves two neighbours, 74-year-old Tommy O’Laughlin and the…

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