Clearly the unemployed layabout 32 year old son came home from the pub drunk out of his mind for the umpteenth time.
83 year old dad, sick and tired of his loser offspring's bullsh!t, gives him a piece of his mind.
Drunken wastoid son proceeds to pummel dad to smithereens and then probably passes out.
He was so knackered that he blacked out and didn't remember what he did, maybe, but it's obvious to anyone with a working brain that the scenario I've outlined is roughly 14.6 billion times more likely than the story the judge bought.
"He was so knackered that he blacked out and didn't remember what he did, maybe, but it's obvious to anyone with a working brain that the scenario I've outlined is roughly 14.6 billion times more likely than the story the judge bought."
It seems that in America, the DA would have had about 10 psychologists saying, "Not possible!".