UNITED STATES v. IRELAND
For the United States of America: Prosecutor says Debt led to cleaver attack
Calise and Mann are accused of tracking down the victim, Vincent Zarcone, at the Sound Shore Fishing Club on June 7. When Zarcone couldn’t pay his debt, Assistant District Attorney Livia Rodriguez said, Calise started swinging the meat cleaver at the victim’s head, yelling: “Gimme your arm! I want to cut it off!”
For the Republic of Ireland: Meat cleaver assault trial opens
Witnesses told the jury how “a Chinese man” needed two hands to “yank the cleaver” from the victim’s head, such was the force of the blow and that after the attack there was blood “pouring from his head”.