What I dont get is why werent they in court?
I dont know too much about the trial apart from what I saw snippets of
One day it was "Ben Stokes made homophonic remarks" and the next it was "Ben Stokes was defending them"
Surely if the 2 blokes are saying he was protecting them how does it even get to a trial based on him being homophobic to them? That article shows it's pretty clear cut.
Also, there was a bouncer who stood up in court saying he was the one picking on the gay couple. The gay couple are saying he was protecting them.
How does that work?
If he wasn't a celebrity it would never have made the papers and got to court. Neither side wanted to press charges. Whole thing is a complete waste of time and money.Is it because he is a "celebrity" that he's walked away not guilty ?
The way I saw it explained is that they would have been called up by Stoke's team to give evidence in his favour but the prosecution got to put their side first and had nothing. It was then obvious he wouldn't be found guilty so his team didn't bother calling anyone up just in case they said something that dropped him in it.What I dont get is why werent they in court?
I've seen police stand and watch much worse and not do anything.Flip side to this is that if any one of us did what he did we'd be facing a stretch inside irrespective of the surrounding circumstances. It wasn't self defence or just a bit of pushing or shoving or a punch thrown. It was a sustained attack. I was shocked when he was found Not Guilty after seeing the film.
To be fair, if the bloke had a bottle then it's even more fair play to stokes.Chinned em both, think Hales took a kick at fella on the floor who had the bottle.
Agreed, but....just think BS should have stopped battering them both after the bottle was discarded. Red-Mist as I said earlier.To be fair, if the bloke had a bottle then it's even more fair play to stokes.
Who knows what would happen if he didn't knock them both out? They could have bottled him and caused more damage.
Agreed, but....just think BS should have stopped battering them both after the bottle was discarded. Red-Mist as I said earlier.
Your man swung the bottle, missed, got pushed to the floor, Hales took a kick, fella lost said bottle and BS then, imo acted OTT/went mental in self-defence due to seeing the bottle, which I believe most of us would possibly get angry at!Who knows what he was thinking though? If somebody was threatening with a bottle I wouldn't feel too safe at turning my back and walking away just in case they find another...
He just hit each one once didn't he? It's not as if he was on top of them laying into them.
I see Danny Cipriani is in the news this morning for something similar.
Hope it's ok to plant it here rather than start a new thread.
Ah they didn't go into that detail on the bulletin I heardAssaulting a woman police officer....
England rugby star Danny Cipriani has pleaded guilty to two charges of common assault and resisting arrest.
He has been fined £2,000 and £250 in compensation to a female police officer, whose neck was bruised during the incident.
Yeah it doesFrom how it reads it looks like it has been dealt with already
Yeah it does
So it must be a retrospective piece and kept quiet?
I got into trouble in the wrong time I reckon. If you had a fight in a pub or outside in the 70's/80's and you got arrested, you went to court and if found guilty usually got sent down,or got a suspended sentence. Now not much happens. Not advocating anyone having a punch up, but if you do they won't treat it seriously now.
I got into trouble in the wrong time I reckon. If you had a fight in a pub or outside in the 70's/80's and you got arrested, you went to court and if found guilty usually got sent down,or got a suspended sentence. Now not much happens. Not advocating anyone having a punch up, but if you do they won't treat it seriously now.
I got done for affray 10 years ago and it was nowhere near as bad as the Stokes incident!
I'm not bitter at all as I deserved my punishment, but these blokes are very lucky I reckon in getting away with sod all. I got involved in a brawl in the Acorn pub in the mid 70's, it ended up outside, and by the time the coppers turned up it had ended. Anyway I gobbed off a bit as did my mate so off to the cells we went. Thought they'd let us go to sober up in the morning ? But no we got done for ABH and disorderly behaviour, and ended up getting 18 months. I appealed and got told I could have got longer ! I did 13 months in the Green and Stafford, and when I came out and went in the Acorn pub got told I was barred for life. Now that's what I call being punished !I got done for affray 10 years ago and it was nowhere near as bad as the Stokes incident!
Very true. In the late 80s early 90s when I would be having regular nights on the town it was the same. You rarely saw trouble and if you did there was an intervention pretty quickly.I got into trouble in the wrong time I reckon. If you had a fight in a pub or outside in the 70's/80's and you got arrested, you went to court and if found guilty usually got sent down,or got a suspended sentence. Now not much happens. Not advocating anyone having a punch up, but if you do they won't treat it seriously now.
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