Daredevil boxer kills man with single punch in a pub
A boxer has been jailed for ten years Friday for killing a young man with a single punch in a pub before boasting: ‘It was just boom, boom.’
Brandon Sillence, 25, used his fists to deliver a fatal blow to ‘perfect son’ Dean Skillin, 20, on a night out.
He had been drinking at The Waverley pub in Bangor, North Wales, when he launched the attack ‘without provocation’.
A jury heard he hit Dean and his cousin Taylor Lock after approaching them in the pub and left him for dead.
Sillence told police: ‘I just literally jabbed. I have gone ‘boom, boom’. I just wanted them to f**k off. I was looking forward to going home to my bird, mate.’
The court heard Sillence had approached the pair before punching them both in quick succession.
Sillence was arrested and told police he was protecting a friend.
He told Detective Constable Lee Harshey-Jones: ‘Two lads were ready to go for my mate, so I slapped them both.
‘It was just a warning. I wasn’t aggressive. I have not tried to hurt anybody.
‘I’ve hit two people. I punched then both to warn them….to back off. One fell down, the other one just stumbled.But Sillence insisted he had not intended to kill anyone.
He said: ‘I am not a bionic man. I have just moved my hand forward. I did not intend anyone to die. ‘
Prosecutor John Philpotts said Dean was brain dead before he hit the floor.
He said: ‘The punch struck Dean Skillin and fractured the vertebrae, damaging the vertebral artery with the bleeding compromising Dean Skillin’s brain stem and resulting in him being brain dead before he hit the ground.’
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Dean’s cousin Mr Lock said he felt a blow to the left side of his jaw before he regained his senses and saw his relative unconscious on the floor.
He said: ‘A man was looking at me very aggressively. He said: “You think you’re big boys”. ‘
Caernarfon Crown Court heard a nearby police officer heard an ‘an awful, hollow thud’ as up to 40 people were leaving the pub.
Paramedics rushed Dean to hospital where a CT showed a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain. He died the following morning.