It is reported that a BBC TV director pushed a retired grammar school teacher to death in the street following an altercation over Welsh independence.
After arguing with grandpa Peter Ormerod, 75, in the bar in Burry Port, Wales, on September 24, 2022, Hywel Williams, 40, is accused of pushing him.
The two men were captured on camera inside the bar having a lively conversation before they departed together.
Swansea Crown Court heard Williams left the pub to go and check his phone with Mr Ormerod ‘at around the same time’ when he walked out with the defendant’s mum.
Prosecutor Ian Wright KC said there is CCTV of the two men coming together outside a coffee shop a short distance from the pub before Williams allegedly pushed the older man to the floor.
Williams called the retired teacher a ‘fat little c***’ after he hit Mr Ormerod’s head to the ground, the court also heard.
Mr Wright said: ‘That push caused Peter Ormerod to fall backwards on the back of his head.
‘Having hit the ground, having hit his head on the ground, Peter Ormerod did not move again.’
Mr Ormerod died in hospital four days later from severe head injuries and brain injuries on September 28 2022 after the alleged attack.
Williams works as a director for Britain’s longest-running TV soap opera made by the BBC, the Welsh language show Pobol Y Cwm – People of the Valley.
Williams said he was fed up with the row over Welsh politics which angered Mr Ormerod.
He said he told Mr Ormerod: ‘I don’t have time for this mate* I don’t want any of this.’
Williams said Mr Ormerod replied: ‘Don’t you ever speak to me like that again. How dare you speak to me like that.’
Williams said they swore at each other before he pushed Mr Ormerod to the floor in self-defence.
He said: ‘I felt scared and pushed him.’
He said he hadn’t meant to hurt Mr Ormerod, but just to push him away.
‘I thought he was going to get back up,’ he said.
Williams admitted pushing Mr Ormerod when he contacted the police and the ambulance service.
‘I did everything I could to help him,’ he told the court.
When asked whether he used the words ‘fat little c***’, Williams said he didn’t remember using those words but accepted that he had.
Williams, of Grangetown, Cardiff, denies manslaughter saying he acted in self-defence.
Mr Ormerod’s family said in a tribute: ‘Peter was a well-respected teacher and member of the community a very loved and loving father, grandfather, brother and friend.’
The trial which is expected to last two weeks continues.