Nathan Gothard, 37 and unemployed, is found guilty of killing David Darke, 66, following an incident described by the prosecution as a single punch. The reports say Darke suffered a fatal brain injury after his head hit the ground. According to the accounts, the attack occurs after a woman rejects Gothard’s advances, and Gothard is portrayed as becoming agitated in the lead-up to the assault. The coverage describes Gothard as “wound up like a coiled spring” before he “poleaxed” Darke. Both accounts presented here focus on the same court outcome and core facts: Gothard is convicted, Darke dies from an injury sustained in the fall after being struck, and the rejection of Gothard’s “creepy” advances is cited as the surrounding context for the confrontation. The sources do not provide additional details about sentencing, the full trial evidence, or any agreed timeline beyond the reported circumstances of the incident and the cause of death.