Coleraine hotel room was '˜sprayed with blood'

A man who caused substantial damage because his blood was sprayed all around an hotel room has been given a conditional discharge after a judge accepted he had not deliberately thrashed the room like a 'rock star'.

Richard William Lyness (32), of Jervis Street, Portadown, appeared at Coleraine Magistrates Court on Friday and admitted causing criminal damage to light fittings, curtains, bedding, wallpaper, carpet and chairs at the Lodge Hotel in Coleraine by ‘intending to damage such property or being reckless as to whether such property would be damaged’.

A prosecutor said on July 31 last year police were called by staff at the hotel after one of the rooms was found “covered in blood”.

Coleraine hotel room was '˜sprayed with blood' - court told