Statements made by police officers and medics who tried to save the life of John Paul McDonagh were read to a jury today (Monday).

Mr. McDonagh sustained a fatal leg wound during a street fight in the Coolcullen Meadow area of Enniskillen in April 2019.

While PSNI officers who attended the scene recalled seeing a young man lying on the ground in a pool of blood, a doctor who treated the 18-year old in hospital spoke of the widespread damage caused to his body due to blood loss.

Joseph Joyce (32), from Clon Elagh in Derry, is currently standing trial at Dungannon Crown Court, sitting in Belfast, charged with murdering Mr. McDonagh.

The father-of-two has also been charged with wounding the deceased's brother Gerard McDonagh with intent, possessing two separate weapons in a public place, and fighting and making an affray.

The fatal incident - which was captured on CCTV - shows Joyce striking out at Mr McDonagh and two of his brothers with a scythe-like weapon.

It's the Crown's case that the two parties engaged in a street battle on the evening of April 11, 2019 following a row earlier that day.

Joyce has denied all the charges, and has claimed he was acting in self-defence and was protecting himself and his family in the face of an attack by the McDonagh brothers.

As the trial entered its second week, a number of statements were read to the jury which detailed the efforts made to save Mr McDonagh's life.

An officer who attended the scene said in his statement that when he arrived at Coolcullen Meadow at 8.50pm, he saw a male lying on the road close to the footpath.

The officer said "I saw he was bleeding heavily from a leg wound and a large crowd were around him.

"I assisted in applying a tourniquet to his left leg, above the wound. I could see a two-inch long wound at the back of his leg, just below his knee."

The officer said CPR was also performed on Mr. McDonagh at the scene, and that he accompanied the injured man in the ambulance.

The officer added that once at the South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen, he spoke to Mr. McDonagh's mother Rose and "told her what was happening and the condition of her son".

Another police constable stationed at Enniskillen said that around 8.50pm on April 11, 2019 he received a report detailing "a number of members of the Travelling Community fighting in the street".

The officer said that when attended Coolcullen Meadow, he saw "a crowd of ten to 20 people around a male on the ground who was receiving First Aid from police who arrived there before me".

The constable said he assisted his colleagues, and also heard Mr. McDonagh say he needed an ambulance.

Another officer who attended the scene said that after arriving at the cul-de-sac on the Sligo Road, he provided medical assistance in the form of chest compressions before ambulance staff took over.

The jury heard that when he arrived at the hospital, Mr. McDonagh was taken to the 'non-covid intensive care unit'.

A doctor at the hospital said Mr. McDonagh "had been struck on the back of the left leg with a sharp weapon. He presented with an injury to the back leg just below the knee, with profuse blood loss and the stopping of the heart in cardiac arrest".

The doctor's statement also revealed that an initial plan to transfer Mr. McDonagh to a Belfast hospital "had to be abandoned because the patient was too unstable to be transferred".

The medic said the blood loss and cardiac problems caused widespread damage to Mr. McDonagh's internal organs and there was "damage to his whole body due to the blood loss".

Despite his left leg being amputated just above the knee and several transfusions, Mr McDonagh's condition deteriorated and he passed away in hospital at 7.20am on April 13, 2019.

At hearing.