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A Luton Jury acquitted man of causing grievous and actual bodily harm after fighting with an older man in his 50’s outside the King William IV Pub in Kempston.
The older man sustained a broken ankle and an injury to his eye socket.
The prosecution relied on the older man together with his girlfriend and the landlady of the pub. They all accused the younger man of being rude and loud to other customers earlier in the evening before starting a fight outside, on the pub’s forecourt.
The landlady accused the younger man’s brother of wiping the CCTV from the pub as footage of the fight was missing.
Sam Giffin confirmed through the Officer in the case that the CCTV from the pub had been had not been tampered with.
She cross examined the prosecution witnesses and suggested the older man left the pub in a bad mood after gambling and losing a lot of money on the pub’s fruit machine.
She put that the younger man said
“you’ve wasted money gambling on the fruit machine and your missus is upset’
This caused the older man to start the fight.
The younger man threw punches in reasonable self defence but denied stamping on the ankle.
He was unanimously acquitted.
Sam was instructed by Rose Nelson at Sperrin Law.
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