Melbourne Surgeon who died after one punch told off accused for smoking, court hears Joseph Esmaili, 22, is charged with manslaughter of Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann at Melbourne’s Box Hill hospital Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann had finished his shift when he saw people smoking in the non-smoking area. There was evidence the impact of the fall cracked the tile floor, Crown prosecutor Mark Gibson SC told Melbourne magistrates court. Gibson said the surgeon noticed a group, including Esmaili, who was smoking in the non-smoking area outside the hospital, and called security. Esmaili then entered the hospital and had a confrontation with Pritzwald-Stegmann, who told him that smoking was banned, before asking Esmaili to leave the hospital. “I saw and heard the noise of a ten-pin bowling ball hitting the floor,” he told the court.

Source: The Guardian February 12, 2018 04:47 UTC