Thread: What you lookin' at?

Ferdinand cleared of club assault

Anton Ferdinand said he was acting out of loyalty to a friend

Premier League footballer Anton Ferdinand has been cleared of assaulting a man outside a nightclub. The West Ham defender admitted punching Emile Walker but told Snaresbrook Crown Court it was in self-defence, as he feared he was about to be mugged.
The incident took place outside the Faces nightclub in Ilford, east London, on 2 October last year.
Ferdinand, 22, denied a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and one count of affray.
The player's friend, Edward Dawkins, 28, was also accused of a similar offence and was cleared by the jury.
You now leave without a stain on your character arising from it


Judge William Kennedy


During the trial Mr Dawkins, of Henry Adlington Close, Beckton, east London said he was defending a friend.
Addressing the pair after the verdict, Judge William Kennedy said: "This was an unfortunate incident for you both which is now at an end.
"You now leave without a stain on your character arising from it."
The footballer admitted striking the first blow after Mr Walker, 22, "eyeballed" his £64,000 watch then threatened a friend, the court heard.
But the jury was told no sooner had he been dragged away than up to 10 other men punched the "would-be robber" to the ground and kicked him repeatedly.
The jury trying the player, from Mottingham, south-east London, took just 90 minutes to accept he was acting in self-defence.
Jurors unanimously cleared him of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, affray, and alternative common assault and public order offences.

I don't know if there is more to the case than written here, but that tells me that the judge thinks that it is somehow illegal for a poor person to look at a rich person or their belongings and is punichable by being beaten up on the spot with no judge or jury.

The crappy footballer **** should be arrested for wearing a 64,000 pound watch in the first place, the crude, nouveau riche twat

Footballer Anton Ferdinand did the "honourable thing" by not naming a friend who may have been involved in a group fight, he told a court.

Shit, this gets better, he even admits to lying to the police and gets away with it.