Judge acquits son who said he bashed father's body after he found him hanged A YOUNG medical student who said he bashed his father with a baseball bat in a fit of grief after finding him hanged has been found not guilty of murder. Joshua John Ravindran, 21, always maintained he found his father, Ravi Ravindran, hanging from a beam in his Blue Mountains home on April 23, 2011. He said he took his father down and then bashed him with a baseball bat in a fit of grief and anger that his dad had abandoned him through suicide. Joshua Ravindran's version of events was accepted by Justice Stephen Campbell in the Supreme Court in Sydney today. The judge handed down verdicts of not guilty of murder and not guilty of manslaughter following a judge-alone trial. Mr Ravindran smiled and hugged his barrister after the acquittal. Justice Campbell found Mr Ravindran senior had been a "most difficult man," who suffered from a narcissistic personality disorder and whose influence on his son was "not benign." Joshua Ravindran was extremely close to his father and described him as the "number one person" in his life after he rejected his mother from the age of 12. The trial heard Mr Ravindran senior had confided to a friend some years before that he would take his own life if his son ever lost respect for him. The pair had an argument the day before Mr Ravindran's death, during which Joshua, a medical student, told his dad he wanted to move out. During the course of the argument, Mr Ravindran told his son, "No Indian boy would dare speak to his father like this. You have completely lost respect for me and this family. Justice Campbell found it was plausible Mr Ravindran had attempted suicide the morning after this argument in a "spiteful act that would hurt his son." The court heard Mr Ravindran was still alive when his son struck him with the bat and that he "survived the blows with a beating heart" for up to 10 minutes. Justice Campbell said Joshua Ravindran's actions in striking his father on the head with the baseball bat significantly contributed to his death, but he said he was satisfied he believed his father was dead when he did so.