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Station Officer Brian Mulvaney, of Dublin Fire Brigade, has said that he saw “a large laceration” on Leanne Flynn’s side and that “One of her internal organs was protruding through the laceration,” adding that, “I think it could have been her lung”.
Day seven of the trial of Riad Bouchaker, who is accused of three counts of attempted murder in respect of three small children, and one count of assault causing serious harm in respect of creche worker Leanne Flynn.
Mr Mulvaney said that he “had three lads in the truck” when he and his crew were on their way to a call out on Henry Street, Dublin, when a message came through about an incident on Parnell Square East.
As the situation on Henry Street was already being attended to, Mr Mulvaney said he had the fire engine pull over for a few minutes to wait for further information before diverting to that location.
He told a jury of three women and nine men that when he arrived on Parnell Square East, he saw “a small girl lying on the path” with one EMT and one member of the public attending to her. He also saw an “adult female sitting on steps who looked in distress”.
When prosecuting counsel Carol Doherty BL asked Mr Mulvaney about the little girl, he said, “The little girl was on her back, I remember her pink shoes, they stood out.”
He said that one of the fire brigade crew went to assist the child while another attended to Leanna Flynn.
Mr Mulvaney said that further down the road, he saw an adult male on the ground and thought he may also have been a victim. He described a “cordon of women standing around him holding hands like a chain stopping people getting to him.”
He said “a lot of resources” arrived on the scene “in a very short time”.
Turning back to Ms Flynn’s condition, he said, “She had a lot of blood on her back. She had a large laceration.”
“One of her internal organs was protruding through the laceration”, he said, adding, “I think it could have been her lung.”
He described her as being “in a lot of distress, telling us she couldn’t breathe properly,” and how he “tried to get a dressing onto her back, and get her onto a stretcher and into an ambulance.”
Mr Mulvaney described how he initially received information that five children had been stabbed and that he went into the school to check on them and made calls for more help.
He said that Riad Bouchaker was “on the ground on his side,” that he “could tell he was breathing”, but there was “no response out of him.”
He said that the accused “responded to pain stimulus” and that the mother of the little girl had arrived on the scene at that stage.
Dublin Fire Brigade Advanced Paramedic, David Hosback said that he had two Advanced Paramedics on his truck and that he was given a handover of the treatments which had been administered to the little girl prior to his own arrival.
He said that an injection into the bone marrow of the child had been carried out so that medication could be delivered directly into her blood system, that she had been given tranexamic acid, sodium chloride, and adrenaline.
He said that he worked on putting an eclusive dressing on the child’s chest and that two doctors, one a pediatric anesthesiologist from Temple Street Children’s Hospital, were on the scene.
While the little girl was being conveyed to hospital, a decision was made to give her a blood transfusion, which had been sourced from the Rotunda Hospital.
When Ms Doherty asked him, “What did the girl look like?” he answered that he had a “vivid memory” of her “pair of pink runners” and that he thought she was“roughly five years of age”.
The trial continues with Riad Bocuhaker denying all charges.
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