A Sorell beating in March last year that led to the death of a man has been wrapped up legally.
The man who had hit Adrian Garcia with a broom stick before he was mortally wounded with a baseball bat by now convicted murderer Braydon Kelleher has escaped a jail sentence.
32 year old Beau Abel, whose girlfriend died 5 days earlier, attacked the drunken Garcia with the stick in a Sorell Park over disparaging comments about his girlfriend reported to him.
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Kelleher, the grandson of the girlfriend’s mother, inflicted blows to the head with the baseball bat that ended up becoming fatal.
Abel has been given a three month suspended prison sentence.
