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		</div><p>A US senator has been awarded more than $580,000 (€507,000) in damages and medical expenses after he sued a neighbour who tackled him and broke several of his ribs in a dispute over lawn maintenance.</p>
<p>Republican politician Rand Paul was attacked while gardening at his home in Bowling Green, Kentucky.</p>
<p>He gave evidence during a three-day trial that he feared for his life as he struggled to breathe after Rene Boucher, an anaesthesiologist, slammed into him in their upmarket neighbourhood in late 2017.</p>
<figure id="attachment_125102" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-125102" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/87FC3FC9-0962-4EC5-BF51-1C177D8690CB.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-125102" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/87FC3FC9-0962-4EC5-BF51-1C177D8690CB.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="900" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-125102" class="wp-caption-text">Rene Boucher</figcaption></figure>
<p>The jury awarded $375,000 (€328,000) in punitive damages and $200,000 (€175,000) for pain and suffering, plus nearly $8,000 (€7,000) for medical expenses.</p>
<p>After the jury gave its verdict Mr Paul said in a statement he hoped it would send a “clear message that violence is not the answer — anytime, anywhere”.</p>
<p>Mr Paul and Boucher recounted in detail their versions of the attack for the jury.</p>
<p>The senator said he got off his ride-on mower to pick up a stick and was straightening up when Boucher hit him from behind with such force that both flew 5ft-10ft through the air.</p>
<p>He said he was wearing noise-cancelling headphones and did not hear Boucher coming towards him.</p>
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<p>Boucher told the jury he attacked Mr Paul after watching the senator begin forming a pile of garden waste near their property line.</p>
<p>The day before the attack, Boucher said, he had burned another pile that Mr Paul had created near the boundary.</p>
<p>Boucher has already served a 30-day prison sentence after pleading guilty to assaulting a member of Congress.</p>
<p>His lawyer, Matt Baker, said they would appeal against the jury’s damages decision.</p>
<p>“We all expected that Senator Paul would get a verdict in his favour,” Mr Baker said. “This far exceeds anything that we were expecting.”</p>
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